"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."      Joseph Addison

         "Many men began a new era in his life from the reading of a book."      Henry David Thoreau

         "To travel far, there is no better ship than a book."      Emily Dickinson

         "A Nation is made by men and books."      Monteiro Lobato

         "My kids will have computers of course, but they will have books first."      Bill Gates

         "True illiterate people are those who have learned to read and don’t read."      Mario Quintana

         "Reading a good book is a constant dialogue: the book talks and soul responds."      André Maurois

         "Double delight: a book has the advantage that we can be alone and yet together at the same time."      Mario Quintana

         "The books give us advice that our friends don’t dare to give us."      Samuel Smiles

         "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."      Charles W. Elliot

         "Books don’t change the world. Books change people; people change the world."      Mario Quintana

         "One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader."      Joseph Conrad

         "The world is full of fantastic books that nobody reads."      Umberto Eco

         "A book is not a book, but a man who speaks through the book."      Alberto Moravia

         "Reading is dreaming by the hand of another."      Fernando Pessoa

         "Reading enlarges the soul."      Voltaire

         "The book is a mute who speaks, a deaf person who responds, a blind who guides, a dead person who lives."      Antonio Vieira

         "The person who doesn’t read can barely speak, barely hear, barely see."      Malba Tahan

         "Reading nourishes the intelligence."      Seneca

         "I believe that reading is a way of happiness."      Jorge Luis Borges