Books

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them - Mark Twain

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket - Chinese Proverb

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all - Abraham Lincoln

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting - Edmund Burke

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers - Charles W. Eliot

A room without books is like a body without a soul - Cicero

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body - Sir Richard Steele

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you - Harold Bloom