John Quincy Adams Book Quotations

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.