“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.”

“There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.”

“A man is known by the books he reads.”

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”

“A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.”

“All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.”

“As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man,
I have chalked up many a mile.
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks,
And I've learned much from both of their styles.”

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle…”

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”