"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."