Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. – Henry Ward Beecher

Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840