“Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.”

“Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!”

“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.”

“I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.”

“The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts”

“Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.”

“Where is a book before it is born? Does a book grow like a tree? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents -- a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? And where is the parent book of books?”

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”