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2. Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
5. Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
7. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
9. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
13. Learn as much by writing as by reading.
14. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
15. The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
18. 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.
19. Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
20. Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

1. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
3. Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
4. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
6. Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
8. When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
10. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
11. 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.
12. It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
16. Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
17. Woe be to him that reads but one book.