What is reading, but silent conversation.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine read more

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.