"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack"
— Virginia Woolf

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."
— Edwin Percy Whipple

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
— Claude Adrien Helvetius

"Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. "
— Judah ibn-Tibbon

"A library is thought in cold storage."
— Herbert Samuel

"The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence."
— Augustine Birrell

"What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us."
— John Bright

"If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures."
— Harry A. Overstreet