There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
~ Isaac D'israeli
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
