"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass
"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read." - Abraham Lincoln
"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." - Roald Dahl
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." - Emilie Buchwald
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book." - Coolio
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." - Austin Phelps
"You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - I had a mother who read to me." - Strickland Gillilan
"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't." - Mark Twain
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!" - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." - Walt Disney
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." - Lemony Snicket
"A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket." - Chinese Proverb
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." - Paul Sweeney
"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child." - May Ellen Chase
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." - Margaret Fuller
"A book is a gift you can open again and again." - Garrison Keillor
"There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away" - Emily Dickinson