Books

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- Ezra Loomis Pound, 1885 - 1972

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet, 1906 - 1978

[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
- Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893 - 1970

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC - AD 65

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
- George William Curtis

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.
- Abraham Lincoln

Everyone who know how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
- Northrup Frye

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Sir Francis Bacon