The famous aphorisms related to reading are as follows:

1. Real books should be the product of night and silence, not the fruit of day and chat. ——Marcel Proust

2. Reading is my only entertainment. I do not waste my time in hotels, gambling, or any kind of bad games; but I work as hard as necessary on my career. ——Franklin

3. To learn to read, you must first read very slowly. Until the last book is worthy of your intensive reading, you should still read it very slowly. ——Faqi

4. Reading a good book is talking to many noble people. ——Goethe

5. Determination should be based on true character, and reading must be done with hard work. —— Ruan Yuan

6. Books are mentors for young people and nurses for the elderly. In times of silence, books make us happy and stay away from all pain. ——Collier

7. Reading is to the spirit just as exercise is to the body. ——Edison

8. People who don’t read will stop thinking. —— Diderot

9. Scholars who have the ambition to be self-reliant should break away from the popular customs and not drift around in the world. ——(Qing Dynasty) Tang Bin

10. Books - a window to observe the world through the mind. A house without books is like a room without windows. ——Wilson

11. Learning requires experience, and career requires expertise. ——(Qing Dynasty) Zhang Xuecheng

12. Anyone who reads useless books is just playing with things and losing one's ambition.

——(Qing Dynasty) Wang Yu