Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.