I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

They who have read about everything are thought to understand everything, too, but it is not always so; reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and its not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections — we must chew them over again.