Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
- Forster, E.M.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
- Johnson, Samuel

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- Milton, John

A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
- Tupper

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire