“The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring”
“Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.”
“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”
“The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”
“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.”
“Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
“The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.”
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”
“Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.”
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.”
“The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.”
“My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”
“Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.”
“There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.”
“You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”
“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”
“Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.”
“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”
“What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.”
“A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.”
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”