“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”