Read a little every day.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits."

David Ricardo, 19th century economist.








"The leaders of the French Revolution excited the poor against the rich; this made the rich poor, but it never made the poor rich."

Fisher Ames, 1758-1808.








"The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register."

Hans F. Sennholz















"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
 - Mark Twain


There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them.
~ Joseph Brodsky

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~Cicero

Never judge a book by its movie.
~J.W. Eagan


Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~Sir Richard Steele

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~ Henry Ward Beecher


A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin


I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
~Jorge Luis Borges

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
~ Rita Mae Brown ~


A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
~ Thomas Carlyle ~


A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~ Chinese proverb ~


The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.One does not love breathing.
~ Harper Lee


For books are more than books,
 they are the life,
the very heart and core of ages past,
the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
~ Amy Lowell ~

Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
~Groucho Marx

A library is thought in cold storage.
~ Herbert Samuel


The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
~ Dr. Seuss


Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~ Henry David Thoreau