When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. We have no past and no future.
Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I had a Mother who read me tales Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales, True to his trust till his tragic death, Faithfulness blent with his final breath. Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. You live several lives while reading it.