The newest books are those that never grow old.

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

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

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