"I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"Years teach us more than books"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"