English Histories make men wise;poets,witty;the mathematics,subtile;natural philosophy,ddep;moral,grave;logic and rhetoric,able to contend.--Francis Bacon Reading history makes people wise, reading Poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic and rhetoric make people eloquent. --Francis Bacon Chinese 1. Reading is enough for pleasure, enough for enrichment, and enough for talent. 2. Reading makes people become perfect people. --- Bacon (UK) 3. Books are ships of thought sailing in the waves of the times. They carefully transport precious cargo to one generation after another. ---Bacon (UK) 4. Some books just need to be tasted, some need to be swallowed, and a few should be chewed. --- Bacon (UK) 5. The images of human wisdom and knowledge will last forever in books; they can survive the wear and tear of time and can be renovated forever. --- Bacon (UK) 6. Books do not tell people by their usefulness. The wisdom of using books is not in the book, but outside the book. It is all gained through observation. --- Bacon (UK) 7. When reading, we talk with wise men; in the affairs of life, we usually talk with fools. --- Bacon (UK) 8. Knowledge is power 9. Love books, they are the source of knowledge.