“It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. ”
“70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2 million people in the world that cannot.”
“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
“...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...”
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.”