quotations about reading
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTES
attributed, The Miracle of Language
Reading is seeing by proxy.
HERBERT SPENCER
The Principles of Sociology
I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
From Pillar to Post
We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.
ANONYMOUS