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| | J. Donald Adams |  | There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. |
| | Joseph Addison | | 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. |
| | Mortimer J. Adler | | All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. |
| | Mortimer J. Adler | | In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. |
| | Mortimer J. Adler | | Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write - and they do. |
| | Amos Bronson Alcott | | Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. |
| | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | | Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. |
| | Ralph Allen | | Jean-Michel Basquiat would not be the genius he presently is. Haitian art is sold at Sotheby's or in Drouault, even if Haitian naive art is treated like a poor relation in books of Art History. |
| | William Allingham | | A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful - then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness. |
| | Sidney Altman | | No sacrifice was too great to forward our education and, fortunately, books and the tradition of study were not unknown in our family. |
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