Here are some more quotes about books. If you have a good one, send it along.
"Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and finding it full of books--even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. " William Gladstone
"Is there any excitement comparable to opening a fresh parcel of books?" William Targ
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without them, history is silent, literature dumb, science
crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." Barbara Tuchman
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!" Henry Ward Beecher
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strenghens our most fatal tendency--the belief that here and now is all there is." Allan Bloom
"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams
"You can never be too thin, too rich or have too many books." Carter Burden
" I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges
"A classic is a book everyone is assumed to have read and often think they have." Alan Bennett
"The covers of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce
"One of the greatest gifts adults can give--to their offspring and to their society--is to read to children. " Carl Sagan
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