1. Reading a good book is like making a good friend. ——Zang Kejia

Translation: Read well, read good books, and read a well-written book. It is like having a close conversation with an excellent friend, and you will benefit a lot.

2. The lights are on at three o'clock and the chickens are on at five o'clock, it is the time for men to study; black hair does not know how to study diligently and early, and white hair regrets studying! ——Yan Zhenqing

Translation: From midnight to the time when the rooster crows every day, it is the best time for boys to study. When they are young, they must know how to study hard and study diligently. But if you only know how to play and don't know how to study hard, you will regret when you are old that you didn't know how to study hard when you were young.

3. My lifelong hobby, apart from revolution, is reading. If I don’t study for a day, I can’t live. ——Sun Yat-sen

Translation: A lifelong preference, that is, spiritual life, apart from revolution, is reading. Books are one’s spiritual food. People can't live without eating, and they can't live without reading. This life refers specifically to spiritual life.

4. If you don’t read at three o’clock or five o’clock, your work will be exposed to the cold. ——Guo Moruo

Translation: You don’t have to work overtime every day and read in the middle of the night to read books. The most scary thing is fishing for three days and drying the nets for two days.

5. Reading is to build one’s own thoughts with the help of other people’s thoughts. ——Lu Bajin

Translation: Reading is not reading words. Some people say that he is reading, but in fact he is just reading words without truly understanding the author's intention. In other words, he has not understood the philosophy at all, but just swallowed the jujube.