“We profit little by books we do not enjoy.”

“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...”

“We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.”

“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read the books that make us so little, make us a speck of dust or a grain of sand in a galaxy, until we feed our minds with all the knowledge we need, which is infinite in itself.”

“We really are little book whores,aren't we?Not just in the number of books that we read,but the number of guys we are in love with.”

“We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.”