Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year

The less we know the more we suspect

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking