Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.  Jesse Lee Bennett

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.  Bulstrode Whitlock

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.Charles W. Eliot

Books can be dangerous.  The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.  Helen Exley

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams

Books have to be read  It is the only way of discovering what they contain.  A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. 
E.M. Forster

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.  William Hazlitt

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

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.  Jeremy Collier 

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.Peter Ustinov

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.  Henry David Thoreau