"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"Literature is news that stays news."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands."

"This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man."

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight."