“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”