We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Author unknown

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page. – Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night