2. Reading makes a full person, discussion makes a witty person, and notes make an accurate person. 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 and have skills before they can be ignorant and obvious.
3. Reading history makes people wise, reading poems makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people grave, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent; Everything you learn becomes a character.
4. People who have a skill despise reading, ignorant people admire reading, and only wise people use reading. However, books do not tell people about their usefulness, and the wisdom of using books is not in books, but outside them, and it is all based on observation.
5. Too much reading time is easy to be lazy, and too much literary talent and ornamentation is easy to be corrected. It is a pedant's state to judge things entirely by articles.
6. Reading makes up for the deficiency of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiency of reading. Natural talents are like natural flowers and plants. After reading, you know how to prune and transplant them. As shown in the book, if you don't follow the example of experience, it will be too big and useless.