“a good reader makes a good book”

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

“O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.”

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

“I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”