I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what 1 find.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I know every book of mine by its scent, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Books give not wisdom where was none before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

We decided that we would teach reading because the kids couldn't read well, and because you had to be able to read in America in order to be equal.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?