Good readers make much out of little.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the authors soul.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

I love to lose myself in other men s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.