Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill .

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

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.

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.

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