Book Quote by Aldus Manutius

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is…

— Maria Mitchell

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public…

— Charles Nodier

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

— Alice B. Toklas

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

— Ernestine Rose

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves…

— Anonymous

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space…

— Terry Pratchett

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

— Terry Goodkind

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It’s a red letter day, too: the new set of science textbooks has finally arrived. This may not seem much to you but I…

— Frank Chalk

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children;…

— Mark Twain