There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
An eager reader seeking a good book differs greatly from a tired reader wanting any book.
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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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
— Edmund Burke
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
— Dr. Bacon
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding th…
— H. Mann
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. For much overcharges nature, a…
— Thomas Fuller
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music d…
— O. W. Holmes
