“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, — and that is a book honestly come by.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“The book's always better than the movie.”

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”

“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

“books—there is a good kind of a book and a bad kind of a book. I am not to assume that you are all ill acquainted with this; but I may remind you that it is a very important consideration at present. It casts aside altogether the idea that people have that if they are reading any book—that if an ignorant man is reading any book, he is doing rather better than nothing at all.”

“History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.”