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"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.""
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."
Oscar Wilde
"But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
Oscar Wilde
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
Robert Frost
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
Robertson Davies
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
T.S. Eliot
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
Victor Hugo
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
Winston Churchill
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