Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury)

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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

— Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury)

The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die.

— Richard Aungervyle (Aungerville) (a/k/a Richard de Bury)

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

— Richard De Bury

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

— Richard McKenna

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

— Richard Eder