Book Quote by William E. Gladstone

“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

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house…

— Anne Rice

“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

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

— 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

“Requirement ruins even the best of books.”

— Victoria Schwab

“The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.”

— Alberto Manguel

“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and…

— Anonymous

“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have…

— Alberto Manguel

“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is…

— Matthew Battles

“A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time…

— George MacDonald