The Book Lovers' Anthology: A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries

A blessed companion is a book—a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend.”—Douglas William Jerrold
 
“Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion.”—Robert South
 
“If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they.” —Thomas Hobbes
 
 Can books corrupt? Do badly written books sharpen or dull the minds of their readers? Ought we to take seriously the old saw that excessive reading can damage one’…