~ You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~
~ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading ~
~ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~
~ Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ~
~ To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ~
~ What is reading, but silent conversation. ~
~ To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. ~
~ Reading is a lot like physical exercise. Reading is a workout for the brain. ~