“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unamity.”

“I read the newspaper avidly.It is my one form of continuous fiction.”

“When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even though it sometimes produces rather fierce arguments.”