1. A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

A good book is like a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

2. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

A good book is like a friend, and friendship lasts forever.

3. Book are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Books are eternal lamps lit by accumulated wisdom.

4. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Reading When choosing friends, it is better to have fewer and better friends.

5. by reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.

Reading makes people enriched, and conversation makes people sober.

6. It is not wide reading but useful reading that leads to excellence.

Reading can be extremely effective, not in reading extensively, but in reading useful books.

7. It is when you are using what you have learned from books that you wish you had read more books than you have.

It is only when the books are used that you regret less.

8 . Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is good for the mind, just like exercise is good for the body and mind.

9. Reading without comprehension is like eating with no relsih.

Reading without understanding is like chewing bark.

10. There is no friend so faithful as a good friend. There is no worse robber than a bad book.

Good books are the most loyal friends; bad books are the most vicious robbers.