“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

“To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.”

“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text.”

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

“The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it in a book.”

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.”

“One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.”

“Reading is a starting step of many things, which build a more solid stairs for you to climb up achieving something big out there.”

“There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion.”

“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

“Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it’ll be too dark to read.”

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”

“I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

“When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.”