How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. – Jesse Lee Bennett

He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. – W. Somerset Maugham