Its righteous feelings are most common when it comes to solitude and seclusion, its erudition is also the most common when it comes to talking about circles, and its long talents are also the most common when it comes to judging things.

Sophisticated people can deal with the details separately, or they can distinguish the details one by one, but if they plan the overall situation as a whole, they are studious and thoughtful people.

Reading too long is easy to be lazy, and literary talent and ornamentation are too rich and charming. Judging things completely according to the provisions is a pedant's state.

Reading makes up for the deficiency of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiency of reading. It is like a natural flower covering the natural talent of the world. After reading it, you will know how to trim and transplant. As the book shows, if you don't imitate experience, it will be too big and useless.

People with skills despise reading, ignorant people admire reading, and only smart people use reading. However, books don't tell people its usefulness, and the wisdom of using books is not in books, but outside them, all by observation.

When reading, don't deliberately question the author, don't believe everything in the book, and don't just look for chapters and sentences, but think carefully. Some books can be tasted, some books can be swallowed, and some books have to be chewed and digested. In other words, some people only need to read part of it, some people just need to dabble in it, and a few people have to read it all. When reading, they must be absorbed and tireless.

You can also ask someone to help you read this book, but only if the subject matter is inferior or the value is not high, otherwise the book classics will be distilled like water classics and insipid.

Reading makes a full man, discussion a witty man, and notes an exact man. Therefore, journalists who don't often write must have a strong memory, those who don't often discuss must be born smart, and those who don't often read must deceive the world. Only when they have skills can they be ignorant and obvious.

Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people grave, and logic and rhetoric make people.

Learning makes people eloquent: no matter what you learn, you become a role.

A person's mental retardation can be alleviated by proper books, just as all diseases of the body can be eliminated by proper exercise. Rolling is good for the testicles and kidneys, archery is good for the chest and lungs, walking is good for the stomach, riding is good for the brain, and so on. If you don't concentrate, you can study math, and you must concentrate on doing the problem. If you are a little distracted, you must repeat it. If you can't tell the difference, you can read scholasticism, because everyone is very picky. If you are not good at seeking common ground while reserving differences and explaining one thing to another, you can look at the lawyer's file. In this way, whenever there is a defect in the brain, there is a specific medicine that can be cured.

(Talking about Francis Bacon's Reading)