The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

My mother insisted that her children read.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.