Reading can make you enriched, discussion can make you sharp, and taking notes can make you rigorous. ——[English] Francis Bacon

Reading is a portable refuge. ——[English] Somerset Maugham

Reading makes us immigrants. ——[American] Robert Frost

After a certain age, reading can easily change the mind from an active creative state to a passive receiving state. Anyone who reads too much and uses his or her brain too little develops the habit of being too lazy to think. ——Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner)