A man is known by the books he reads.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

Beware the man of a single book.

a real scholar with a bright pen,

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

This was what he had once upon a time expected and hoped of all books that he opened, that each be the one book he required, his own book.

Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

By writing books, a man turns into a universe.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.