What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.