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| A book’s a book although there’s nothing in it. | 1 |
| A book that remains shut is but a block. | 2 |
| A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever. Tupper. | 3 |
| A good book praises itself. German. | 4 |
| A great book is a great evil. Greek, Dutch. | 5 |
| A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. Greek. | 6 |
| A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent. | 7 |
| According to the mercantile code the best book is a profitable ledger. Gibbon. | 8 |
| Beware of the man of one book. Latin. | 9 |
| Book-keeping taught in one lesson,—don’t lend them. Punch. | 10 |
| Books are for company, the best friends and counsellors. Writer of the Sixteenth Century. | 11 |
| Books can never teach the use of books. Bacon. | 12 |
Books cannot always please, however good,
Minds are not ever craving for their food. Crabbe. | 13 |
| Books don’t tell when de bee-martin an de chicken-hawk fell out. African American. | 14 |
| Books like proverbs receive their value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. Sir William Temple. | 15 |
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight or use. Denham. | 16 |
| Books were only invented to aid the memory. Petrarch. | 17 |
| Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. Bacon. | 18 |
| Good books like good friends are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable. Alcott. | 19 |
| Have thy study full of books rather than thy purse full of money. Lilly. | 20 |
| He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. Isaac Barrow. | 21 |
| He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself. Robert South. | 22 |
| I never knew more sweet and happy hours than I employed upon my books. James Shirley. | 23 |
| It is vain to fish without a hook or learn to read without a book. Danish. | 24 |
| Judge not a book by its cover. | 25 |
| Like the parson of Saddleworth who could read in no book but his own. | 26 |
| No book is so bad but that something may be learned from it. Pliny. | 27 |
| Oh! that mine enemy would write a book. | 28 |
| Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Alonzo of Aragon. | 29 |
| Something is learned every time a book is opened. Chinese. | 30 |
| The best books are those which the reader thinks he could have written himself. | 31 |
| The fountain of wisdom flows through books. Greek. | 32 |
| The learning of books that you do not make your own wisdom is money in the hands of another in time of need. Sanscrit. | 33 |
| There is no friend so faithful as a good book. | 34 |
| There is no worse robber than a bad book. Italian. | 35 |
| We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. Fielding. | 36 |
| Word by word the great books are made. French. | 37 |
| Years know more than books. | 38 |
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