The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norias, Hands Full of Living, 1931
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot(1834 - 1926), The Happy Life, 1896
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
Live always in the best company when you read.
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong , O Magazine, 2003
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Karl Kraus (1781 - 1832)
Reading musses up my mind.
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Peter S. Jennison
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe , were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. Francois Fenelon
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Rufus Choate
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freigthed with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
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