Bears Quote by Alberto Manguel

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

— Stephen Fry

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

— Scott Cunningham

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their…

— William Ellery Channing

“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond…

— Ben Jacobs

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our…

— Joseph Conrad

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

— George Henry Lewes

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion…

— Marianne Williamson