Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.