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

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

„Moderne Geschichte sollte man nur mit dem Bleistift schreiben.

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you wouldn't read yourself.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

My son should often read and meditate on history; it is the only real philosophy

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.