The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.