Literature
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.