“A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.”

“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.”

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

“With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

The most importnant truth in my life, if you ask me, and he got it all right”

“Books are the carriers of civilization… They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.”

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.”