These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable read more

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!

Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in
a book!