"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life."

~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

"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 and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

~ E.P. Whipple ~

"He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot."

~ Arabic Proverb ~