Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Sir Christopher Wren

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

You know when 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 are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them -- the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher

The silent influence of books is a mighty power in the world.
Henry Giles

A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend.
B.A. Billingsly

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
Samuel Johnson

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.
Edward P. Morgan

October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.
John Sinor

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfield

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies