Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

There is no moment without some duty.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.