Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other …

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conver…

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;