"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."

"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

"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."

"I would like to accept C. H.'s bookBut it would make my own seem so out of date.Heaven will protectThe lay reader."

"The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand."