4. “A book is a gift
you can open again
and again.”
~ Garrison Keillor
5. “Be careful
about reading
health books.
You may die of a
misprint.”
~ Mark Twain
6. “We
shouldn’t
teach great
books; we
should teach
a love of
reading.”
~ B. F. Skinner
7. “Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of
his aren’t very new after all”
~ Abraham Lincoln
8. “The books that the world calls
immoral are the books that show
the world its own shame.”
~ Oscar Wilde
9. “The books that help you the most are
those which make you think the most.”
~ Theodore Parker
10. “He that love the a
book will never
want for a faithful
friend, a
wholesome
counselor, a
cheerful
companion, an
effectual
comforter”
~ Isaac Barrow
11. “My test of a good
novel is dreading to
begin the last
chapter.”
~ Thomas Helm
22. “I am mortified to be told that, in
the United States of America, the
sale of a book can become a
subject of inquiry, and of criminal
inquiry too.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
23. “Books constitute
capital. A library
book lasts as long
as a house, for
hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an
article of mere
consumption but
fairly of capital,
and often in the
case of
professional men,
setting out in life,
it is their only
capital.”
~ Thomas
Jefferson