Famous Books Quotes

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

We read to know we are not alone.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we do not know.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.