"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
~Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library."
~Thomas Jefferson
"Light reading(by this I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind."
~George Washington
"Read good books because they will encourage as well as direct your feelings."
~Thomas Jefferson
"A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, than ever were written."
~Thomas Jefferson
"A knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built."
~George Washington
