Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

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

Great books conserve time.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.