What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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