“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” – Paul Sweeney

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglas

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” – Austin Phelps

“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” – Mark Twain