From The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1897.

"Where next?"  From The World by Chester Glass, 1881.

"She took down her Shakespeare," from White Poppies by May Kendall and illustrated by R. A. Bell, 1893.

From New Pictures in Old Frames by Gertrude M. Bradley, 1894.

"During all that time she never turned a page," from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and illustrated by Frederick Henry Townsend, 1897.

An illustration from an 1889 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "The Doctor read with all his eyes."

Here's a quiet reading nook for the children (nothing too ostentatious), from Punch, 1865.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"To read is to risk making one's self vulnerable, to risk encountering what Wayne Booth has called 'the otherness that bites.'" —Megan O'Neill, Popular Culture (2001)

"A writer's job is to lie.  A reader's job is to be deceived." –Geof Huth

"It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different." —Christian Morgenstern

(via Futility Closet)

"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."
—Salman Rushdie

"Writing is just a version of reading."
—Geof Huth

. . . which reminds us of Hemingway's description of "eyes like inkwells."

"The act of reading impedes looking at words."
—Enrique Enriquez