Thoughts on Reading “Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of friends to guide intellectual and emotional growth. ” Caroll Gray
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ” Richard Sleete
“After three days without reading, talk become flavorless. ”
“Once you learn to read you will be forever free. ” Frederick Douglass
Isaac d’isrelli “The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of youth even in old age. ”
“Reading maketh a full man. ” Francis Bacon
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ” Elizabeth Hardwick
“A book is a garden carried in a pocket. ” (Chinese Proverb) “A man without books is as a body without a soul. ” Cicero
“The book is man’s best invention so far. ” “I have sought rest everywhere, and only found it in corners, and books. ” Carolina Maria de Jesus Thomas A. Kempis
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ” Ray Bradbury
“Books we must have though we lack bread. ” “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations. ” Alice Williams Brotherston Henry David Thoreau