Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

I like to think there are some things I recall which I’ve already forgotten. Otherwise what’s the point of reading.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

I read part of it all the way through.

If you are a bookish sort and walk into a house and find no books you may as well surmise yourself a persona non grata. Your kind is not welcome there.