You cannot open a book without learning something.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.

People die, but books never die.