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Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books

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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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

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

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Read much, but not many books.

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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.

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Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

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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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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.

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