“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
“My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.”
“What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.”
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”
“All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.”
“You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.”
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
“One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
“Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
“The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.”
“The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.”
“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.”
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”
“This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.”
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”