“Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.”

“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.”

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”