The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Read much, but not many books.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.