"Books must be read as deliberately and..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”

“Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.”

“I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.”

“Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.”

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

“The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”