Reading as a young man is like gazing at the moon through a gap, reading in middle age is like looking at the moon in a courtyard, and reading in old age is like playing with the moon on the stage. ——Rising Tide

I threw myself on books like a hungry man on bread. ——Gorky

Live with books and never sigh. ——Roman. Roland

The ideal book is the key to wisdom. ——Tolstoy

Books are the nutrition of the world. Life without books is like no sunshine. Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings. ——Shakespeare

Reading too much will create some self-righteous and ignorant people. ——Rousseau

It’s not about reading too much, it’s about thinking frequently. This kind of reading has benefited me a lot. ——Rousseau

Reading outstanding books is like having a long conversation with the most outstanding figures of the past. ——Descartes

If you meet a talented person, you should ask him what books he reads. ——Emerson

Reading the works of famous writers can cultivate eloquence. ——Voltaire

Reading makes you enriched, talking makes you quick, writing and note-taking make you precise. History makes people wise, poetry makes people clever, mathematics makes people shrewd, natural history makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, roadmap and rhetoric make people eloquent. ——Eph. Bacon