While I’m away from the computer a couple days, I leave you with several quotes to enjoy. Hubby has melanoma, so we’re in the middle of consults with the oncologist and plastic surgeon this week. I’ll catch up with you soon!

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us. ~ Franz Kafka

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them — peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. ~ Winston Churchill

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ~ Voltaire

People who are passionate about reading do not have to be convinced of its benefits… We turn to books when we are lonely or when other people overwhelm us. Books are there for us whether we’re celebrating or in mourning. ~ Elisabeth Ellington/Jane Freimiller

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
~ E. M. Forster

A book is a gift you can open again and again. ~ Garrison Keillor

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ~ Oswald Chambers

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ~ Mark Twain