Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.

—Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

—Bell Hooks

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

—Austin Phelps

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

—Arnold Lobel

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

—Andrew Lang