"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." 
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." 
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."