The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.

I picked up the rule and started studying it hard, reading it over and over. It says that 20 percent of the volume of the boat can be appendages, and that's where the idea came from.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine