Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: ‘Be just and good,’ is that in which all our enquiries must end.
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them.
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.
Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires – and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.
If you’re an actor and you don’t get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.