David Dunlap

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire