“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Cicero
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Francis Bacon
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Ask for books this Christmas, and then take time to read them. Enrich your spirit with good literature!
