Lodestar
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
One must be an inventor to read well.
Reading maketh a full man.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Words, words, words.
All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.