When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night- there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.
Christopher Morley

A truly great book is a tale to the simple, a parable to the wise, and a direct revalation of reality to a man who has made it a part of his being.
John Middleton Murray

A good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense.
Vladmir Nabokov

Study for me has been the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Baron De Montesquieu

A book is the only place where you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear of it going off in your face.
Edward P. Morgan