"A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
- Arthur Helps
“We read to know we are not alone.”
- C.S. Lewis
“It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.”
- Denis Parsons Burkitt
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
- Edmund Burke
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.”
- Francis Bacon
“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
- Lord Henry P. Brougham
“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
- Richard Steele
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
- Samuel Johnson
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