“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”

“Things which seem in poor taste: too many personal effects cluttering up the place where one is sitting; too many brushes in an ink-box; too many Buddhas in a family temple; too many stones and plants in a garden; too many children in a house; too many words on meeting someone; too many meritorious deeds recorded in a petition. Things which are not offensive, no matter how numerous: books in a book cart, rubbish in a rubbish heap.”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“You can never, never have too many books”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”

“In one of the rooms of the Fortuny Palace there are eight books from Prospero's Library. They are magical books. In many senses all books are magical.”

“This book… too, is a society — of many small ideas. Each by itself is only common sense, yet when we join enough of them we explain the strangest mysteries of mind.”

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”