“Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

“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, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.”

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

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”

“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”

“Suvrin had a little too much of the politician in him. Too much of the kind of mind willing to let an individual go so the rest will not be inconvenienced.”

“Interviewer: As a captain, there are naturally different kinds of challenges… did you find the expectations of yourself change too much?”

“You read too much and understand too little.”

“No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul."”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”