It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.