A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. 
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. 
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
A good book has no ending.
Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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