Books' Quotes for a Beautiful Reading

“Books are humanity in print.” –Barbara W. Tuchman

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves.” –Gilbert Highet

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” –Abraham Lincoln

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” –William Feather

“Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” –Unknown

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.” –Theodore Parker

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” –Garrison Keillor

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” –Henry David Thoreau

“He that loves a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.” – Isaac Barrow

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” –Marcus Tullius

“Books give not wisdom where there none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.” –Elizabeth Hardwick

“Read the best book first or you might not have a chance to read them all.” –Henry David Thoreau

“A well-composed book is like a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”- Caroline Gordon

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” –William Styron

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” –Oprah Winfrey

“A book is the only immortality.” –Rufus Choate

“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.” –Anatole Broyard

“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” –Heinrich Heine

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde