Reading makes a full man; conversation, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man.

— Lord Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

— Dr. Bacon

Someone once asked Ben jamin Franklin what sort of person he most pitied. Franklin replied, "A lonesome man on a rainy d…

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon thos…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Joseph Brodsky

There is a fine passage in a book by the late Dr. Henry van Dyke. “Suppose,” he writes, “someone asked for a definition …

— The Kalends