Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print.

— Barbara Tuchman

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest…

— Nicholson Baker

Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

— Aldus Manutius

“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the…

— Paul Collins

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

— Patrick Henry

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau