Favorite Books

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir Nabokov



The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln





If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis






I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
David Livingstone

"And behold, I am coming quickly

Blessed is he who heeds the words

of the prophecy of this book."
Revelation 22:7