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- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
- Johnson
- The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
- Christopher Dawson
- Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
- Rufus Choate
- Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
- James Ramsey
- I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
- R. W. Alger
- A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.
- C. C. Colton
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