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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not res...more

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the wr...more

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. Wh...more

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What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

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anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her t...more

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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glo...more

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For o...more

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot an...more

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In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of ...more