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

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

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

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

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

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

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

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho Marx