That's what this country needs -- more books!

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.