A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

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

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.