a good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

a good book is the best of frineds, the same today and forever.

book are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

by reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.

it is not wide reading but useful reading that leads to excellence.

it is when you are using what you h***e learned from books that you wish you had read more books than you h***e.

reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

reading without comphension is like eating with no relsih.

there is no friend so faithful as a good friend. there is no worse robber than a bad book.

books are to mankind what memory is to the inspaniduanl. -john lubbock

“classic” a book which people praise andon't read. -mark twain

peopleie, but books neverie. no man and no force can abolish memory. -franklin roosevelt

tr***eling thousands of miles is better than reading thousands of books. -chinese proverb

reading without reflecting is like eating withoutigesting. -edmund burke

books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. -g.w.curtis

a great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom andelight. -shelley

the reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. -reneescartes

all books are spanisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. -john ruskin