6 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Reading

Samuel Johnson quotes on reading

22. Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

25. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

27. I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

96. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

123. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

194. It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.