Ages Quote by William Temple

“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.”

— Victor J. Banis

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

— James Bryce

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an…

— William Everson

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

— Philip Yancey

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of…

— William Ellery Channing

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

— Irvine Welsh

“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second value is…

— Jarod Kintz

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity…

— Joseph Addison

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

— William Godwin

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

— Winston Churchill

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks