Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.  ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. 
 ~ Albert Camus

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. 
~ Chinese Proverb

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.  ~ Groucho Marx

New York Public Library Reading Room

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.    ~Kenko Yoshida

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

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

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. 

~E.P. Whipple

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey