Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Love of books is the best of all.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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