Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren t very new after all

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses

What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them

Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.

J. Alfred Prufrock measured his life out in coffee spoons. I measure mine out in pages.

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

-by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far).

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.