reading
“Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.”
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside—candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker.”
“We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.”
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“We read books to find out who we are.”
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“I cannot live without books.”
“We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read, when it is always the book next to it.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
“Read in order to live.”
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”