How Reading Improves the World

Posted by Melissa Howard Apr 11, 2008

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L'Engle

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. George Bernard Shaw

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. Walt Disney

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. Ezra Pound

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind James Russell Lowell

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. Edward P. Morgan

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future... Wilferd Peterson

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. William Ellery Channing

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