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The mere brute pleasure of reading -- the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books are the true levelers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, and the best and greatest of our race.
What we become depend on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, -- where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble™.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Everything in this book may be wrong.
It is much better to be silent than to merely increase the number of bad books.
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Description bypasses the opposition of the reader
(paraphrased).