There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
~ Mary Ellen Chase

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~ Mortimer J. Adler

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
~ Rufus Choate

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
~ Walt Disney

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
It gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~ Lady M. W. Montague

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.
~ Kathleen Norris

Books are the treasured wealth of the world...
~ Henry David Thoreau