Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Reading Clausewitz makes you take your own thoughts a little less seriously.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.