“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“You are only good as the company you keep.”

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

“Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. […] If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”

“It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.”

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”