“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”

“There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring to pregnant women, or the newly dead.”

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.”

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…”

“The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.”

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”

“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”