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

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

— Dr. Bacon

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

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. For much overcharges nature, a…

— Thomas Fuller

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of pa…

— Dr. Channing