1. You can know a person by looking at his likes. ——Ouyang Xiu

2. Artists are always amateurs at first. ——Emerson

3. The hobby of literature and art is an instinct that cannot be destroyed. ——Emerson

4. Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy. ——Confucius

5. Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. ——Chesterton

6. A hobby of reading can turn boring moments into moments of joy. ——Montesquieu

7. People should have a heart that loves truth and adopts it as soon as they see it.

——Goethe