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“The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.” Howard Pyle, 1853–1911
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“I cannot live without books” Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1826
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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” Confucius, 551 BC–479 BC
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936
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“My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.” Edward Gibbon, 1737–1794
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“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, 1809–1865
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862
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“Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.” Christopher Morley, 1890–1957
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” Jane Austen, 1775-1817
A Latter-day Bluestocking 