A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I cannot live without books.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.