1. "All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them."
2. “Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.”
3. "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
4. "Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men."
5. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
6. "The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
7. “There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.”
8. ”You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.”
