The Floating Lush

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

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
--Christopher Morley

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
--Erasmus

A good book has no ending.
--R.D. Cumming

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

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
--Paul Sweeney

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
--W. Somerset Maugham

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
--Logan Pearsall Smith

To have a second language is to possess a second ­soul.
--Charlemange