Jervis Pendleton

if this book should ever roam,

Box its ears and send it home.

(Of course, you would be replacing Jarvis Pendleton with the name of the person you’re giving the book to.)

Here are some others:

“The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page.” Anonymous

“Books are the carriers of civilization…They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.” Barbara W. Tuchman

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor

“’Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s llike riding a bicycle; you’ll never forget to read.”

“Reading a tome is time well-spent… etc.”

“FYI” (with short personal message; this one’s my favorite)

sorry, can’t think of more. luck!