It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. Napoleon was a prodigious reader. It is recorded that in his headquarters at Waterloo, with the weight of the entire world on his shoulders, he had a mobile library of some 800 books. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise. Henry David Thoreau.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world, the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. Henry David Thoreau.