“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
“The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.”
“The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.”
“My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”
“Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.”
“There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.”
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''”
“You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”
“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”
“Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.”
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
“Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“Books give not wisdom where was none before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”
“What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.”
“A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.”
“'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
“Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.”
“Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.”
“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”
“Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”