Reading is enough to make people happy, enrich colors and make people grow. When you are isolated from the world alone, its happiness is also the most obvious; Its welfare lottery is also the most common talk; Its talents are also the most common in judging things in life. Although sophisticated people can handle the details separately, or distinguish the details one by one, it is those who are eager to learn and think deeply about the overall situation. Too much reading time is easy to be lazy, and there are too many literary talents and decorations. 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. Natural talent is like natural flowers and plants. 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 as tasteless as distilled water.

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 poems makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people deep, ethics makes people grave, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people able to contend: all that they have learned are adult products. 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 the philosophy of the scholastic school. Guy is a person who has a critical attitude towards all previous dynasties. If you are not good at seeking common ground while reserving differences and trying to prove 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.

Bacon's collection of essays "On Reading" is about.