Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.

Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book.

Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel. I bought a great one in America called An Incomplete Education, which covers everything from fashion to…

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quota…