Hi!
Our library is the first room visible upon entering our home. I need a great (memorable) quote; I'm going to put it up on the wall w/ vinyl lettering so it can't be TOO long.
So far I've come up with

"Blessings come in both words and those who enter this home"

"books, friends, and family is all i need for body mind and soul"

"a home without books is a body without a soul"

so far nothing is really grabbing me hope you can help! Thank you!

See if any of these help...

Books are humanity in print.
-- Barbara Tuchman

A book is the only immortality.
-- Rufus Choate

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
-- Edwin P. Whipple

Books are like eggs - best when fresh.
-- Edward Abbey

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
-- W. H. Auden

Home is wherever my books are.
-- Anon

I cannot live without books.
-- Thomas Jefferson

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
-- Thomas Carlyle

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
-- Stephen Benet

A room without books is as a body without a soul.
-- Sir John Lubbock (also attributed to Cicero)

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is known by the books he reads.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me.
-- Michael Montaigne

Books, the children of the brain.
-- Jonathan Swift

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
-- Robert Chambers

A house without books is like a room without windows.
-- Horace Mann

Books make up no small part of human happiness.
-- Frederick The Great

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
-- Franz Kafka

Books are for nothing but to inspire.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

She unbent her mind afterwards---over a book.
-- Charles Lamb

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
-- Austin Phelps

The proper study of mankind is books.
-- Aldous Huxley, from Chrome Yellow, 1992

Books may well be the only true magic.
-- Alice Hoffman


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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

Here's a few more.

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
~ Arnold Lobel

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can cover a great deal of country in books.
~ Andrew Lang

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
~ Bell Hooks

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
~ William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
~ Spanish Proverb

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~ Cicero, (Attributed)

Books may well be the only true magic.
~ Alice Hoffman

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
~ Jorge Luis Borges

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
~ George Orwell

A home without books is a body without soul.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love books, and you are fortunate in having your own Library visible when someone enters your home.

Medicine for the soul.
- Unattributed Author, Diodorus Siculus
(I, 49, 3),
inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
- Joseph Addison,
in the "Spectator", no. 166

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
- Joseph Addison

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
~Marie de Sévigné

A man's library is a sort of harem.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
~Jorge Luis Borges

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

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
~Anna Quindlen

Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
~Christopher Morley

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
~Ross MacDonald

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide a means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.
~Holbrook Jackson

If all the wealth of the Indies or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet in exchange for my love for reading, I would spurn them all.
~François Fenelon

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
~Augustine Birrell