Classic Books

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
Abraham Lincoln

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon

"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry."
Emily Dickenson

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Sir Arthus Conan Doyle

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
Benjamin Franklin

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
Montesquieu

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Henry David Thoreau