“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.”

“No one should leave a friend worse than they found them.”

“The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter”