Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish. - Keith Donohue

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Chinese Proverb

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. - Ezra Pound

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.  ~Mary Wortley Montagu

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled "This could change your life." - Helen Exley

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Confucius

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

- Charles Dudley Warner

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

- Augustine Birrell

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Heinrich Mann

From my point of view , a book is like a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it. - SM Crothers

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.- Francis Bacon

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. - S. Weir Mitchell

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.- Napoleon Bonaparte

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me. ~Strickland Gillilan

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns a book is more of an idiot. - Arabic Proverb

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. - Stephen Fry