Book Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Books exceed authors' lifespan.”

— Toba Beta

“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read…

— nick hornby

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being…

— Jay Parini

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.”

— William Dyer

“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year, around 3,600…

— Umberto Eco

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books…

— Georges Duhamel

“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through…

— Siri Hustvedt