Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

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

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Culture begins, however, with the correct movement of the language: and once it has properly begun, it begets that physical sensation in the presence of 'elegant' writers which is known by the name of 'loathing.'

To have a second language at your disposal, even if you only know it enough to read it with pleasure, is a sensible advantage....to secure the enormous boon of access to a second literature. Choose well, choose wisely, and choose one.