There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
All the world's a cage.
Is there life before death?
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.