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

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

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.

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

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read