The Commonplace Book

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"I cannot live without books."

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."

"We read to know we are not alone."

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

"To read is to voyage through time."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."