“Man is what he reads.”

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

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

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”

“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”

“He was able to read and write like a well bred man.”

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

“He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.”