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

“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.”

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

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”