Quotes about Reading

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope that we will always remember them....Let us read again and again, and read to our children or our children's children, the accounts of those who suffered so much.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

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

I wasn't too good at playing games, but I did love reading very much and would have spent my life at it. I had human angels, fortunately for me, to guide me in the choice of the books which, while being entertaining, nourished both my heart and my mind.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.