"Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." ~~ Groucho Marx
"What is written lasts for ever." ~~ Isaac Abravanel
"Life is God’s novel so let him write it." ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"A people’s only national literature is the one written in its national language." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book." ~~ Hai Gaon
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma
"No artistan without tools, nor any scholar without books." ~~ Tsohar Hateiva
"The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Literature is the safest key to a nation’s treasure. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Reading poetry in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"We have books on morality enough and to spare, but so few men of morals. " ~~ Yosef Chaim Brenner