The famous sayings that express "the importance and benefits of reading" are as follows:

1. Life without books is like life without sunshine. Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings. -Shakespeare

2. Reading, an ordinary process that we are used to, is actually a process in which people's hearts are combined with the great wisdom of all nationalities, from ancient times to modern times. -Gorky

3. Reading has broken thousands of volumes, and writing is like a god. -Tang Du Fu's "Twenty-two Rhymes for Wei Zuocheng"

Translation: I have read thousands of books and written articles, and my writing seems to be agile.

4. It's the night when men are reading. Teenagers only know play, do not know to study well, to the old time regret when they are young, why don't know to study hard. -Yan Zhenqing's "Persuade Learning" in the Tang Dynasty

Translation: It is the best time for boys to study at midnight every day. When I was a teenager, I only knew how to play, but I didn't know how to study hard. When I was old, I regretted why I didn't know how to study hard when I was young.

5. Reading makes a full person, discussion makes a witty person, and notes make an accurate person? Reading history makes people wise, reading poems makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people deep, ethics makes people grave, logic and rhetoric make people able to contend. Everything you learn becomes a character. -bacon