Reading

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
- Charles Scribner, Jr.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Reading is a luxury in the same way that eating and breathing are.
- G. Armour Van Horn