“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”

“For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.”

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.”