The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Great books conserve time.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.