Kathleen Norris Master books, but do not let them master you. Charles W. Eliot Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children.
Life is the other way around.
Ezra Pound, All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words. Amy Lowell A room without books is as a body without a soul.