A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. Your friend, he remains a friend.

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

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A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

A good book Good books should impress you. . . I feel a little tired after reading it. You live several lives while reading.

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

A good book has no ending.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot

Books are the quietest The most enduring friend, the most available and wisest advisor, and the most patient teacher.

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

I find television to be very educating. mean. Every time someone turned on the TV, I went into another room to read.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. There is no advantage compared to other people.

——Mark Twain

Let books be your dining table, let books be your dining table

And you shall be full of delights

Let them be your mattress

And you shall sleep restful nights.

~Author Unknown

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. (Said this is a Chinese proverb. But I have no impression. Who knows what the original sentence is?)

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

Books allow us to enter their souls and reveal our own secrets to us.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde

You read when you don't have to read What book you read determines who you become when you can't control yourself. ——Oscar Woold

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~Franz Kafka

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~Franz Kafka

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. The frozen ocean in our souls. ——Kafka

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

Books let a man know that his Those so-called innovative ideas are not actually that novel. ——Lincoln

The above is found from the Internet and roughly translated. Hope you are satisfied.

If you use "quotes about books" and search, you should be able to find many famous quotes and aphorisms.