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Read proudly–put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
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Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
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Read, read, sirrah, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; frost your mind and mortify your flesh.
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Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
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Reading a book gives us the habit of solitery reflection and true enjoyment.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
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Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes
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Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today’s youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow’s leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.
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Reading nourisheth the wit; and when it is wearied with study, it refresheth it, yet not without study.
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Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king’s garden none to the butterfly.
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Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. His intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts.
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Some members of the younger generation can move from comic books to science fiction to the Oresteia in two jumps.
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Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.
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Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.
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