If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
I am a part of all I have read.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.