1. Real books should be the product of night and silence, not the fruit of day and chatter. ——Marcel Proust

2. Reading a good book is talking to many noble people. ——Goethe

3. Determination should be based on true character, and reading must be done with hard work. —— Ruan Yuan

4. Books are mentors for young people and nurses for the elderly. In times of silence, books make us happy and stay away from all pain. ——Collier

5. Reading is to the spirit just as exercise is to the body. ——Edison

6. People who don’t read will stop thinking. —— Diderot

7. Scholars who have the ambition to be self-reliant should break away from the vulgarity and not drift around in the world. ——(Qing Dynasty) Tang Bin

8. Books - a window to observe the world through the mind. A house without books is like a room without windows. ——Wilson

9. Reading should be fun. ——(Song Dynasty) Cheng Hao

10. Anyone who reads useless books is just playing with things and losing his ambition. ——(Qing Dynasty) Wang Yu

11. Books are beacons standing in the vast ocean of time.

——Whipple