The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.Abraham Lincoln
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.Abraham Lincoln
I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.Abraham Lincoln
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.Abraham Lincoln
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.Albert Camus
