You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from i…

When people ask me where I get my imagination, I simply lament, 'God, here and there, makes madness a calling.'

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these …