A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people.

-Will RogersThe man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -Mark TwainWhen I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my

books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. -Michel de MontaigneJust the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. Kathleen Norris

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. * Samuel Johnson

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Ralph Waldo Emerson How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Henry David Thoreau

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind

too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~

Albert Einstein~

What we become depends on what we read after

all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. ~

Thomas Carlyle ~

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Joseph Addison ~ The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

No matter how busy you may think you are,

you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~

Atwood H. Townsend ~

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of

what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ~

Andr Gide~

What is reading but silent conversation? ~Walter Savage Landor~

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound