Books

‘A caring for books preeminent to a purely business concern, is anything but an anti-business point of view. Instead, it is good business and only establishes that the time table for book publishing success may often be different from the time table of other industries viewed statistically.‘― Peter Mayer

‘Modern mass merchants like Amazon have fallen sway to perhaps the most insolently futile idea that ever beguiled men through their vices: that wealth can be gained irrespectively of the consideration of its moral sources. ‘― John Ruskin

‘Books are manuals for being in the world.‘― Aleksandar Hemon

‘I am haunted by an inexhaustible passion that up to now I have not managed or wanted to quench. I feel that I have never enough books. Books delight one in depth, run through our veins, advise us and bind us in a kind of active and keen familiarity; and an individual book does not…

‘It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in paradise again.‘― Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and…

‘The marvel is, indeed, that the bookseller ever survives at all. It is as if a haberdasher, in addition to meeting all the hazards of the current fashion, had to keep in stock a specimen of every kind of shirt, collar, sock, necktie and undershirt in favour since 1750‘― H. L. Mencken

‘Let Your enormous Library be justified.‘― Jorge Luis Borges