John Ruskin Quotes About Reading
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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