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The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Sep 11, 2025
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
More people should use their library.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Words are the voice of the heart.
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.
Don't join the book burners!
A library should be like a pair of open arms.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.