The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The enormous and half-educated publics of present-day England and America… acclaim as masterpieces books that are soon forgotten, while ignoring all that is exquisite and rare.

Whoever converses much among the old books, will be something hard to please among the new.

Translation: Wise men and fools alike, in varying style,
Rush into print, and still, midst books galore,
The world grows ever older and more vile.

I am quite sick of the modern writers of ancient history, who think to make amends by their fine language for the total want of industry, truth and candour.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age; since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information, by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

10 old books feel very aged, out of place, out of sync. 200 year old books feel contemporary. 2000 year old bks feel fresh.

Education, journalism, technology, entertainment and business may also find better methods for their purpose than books and writing. But this does not mean that tapes and films have made books obsolescent—the contention is almost too ludicrous to be taken seriously. Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange, and I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

Books don't go out of fashion with children. They just go out of fashion with adults and publishers.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.