Reading Good Books
Develop some your leisure, I repeat, to cultivate a love of reading good books. Fortunately indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book lovers, for book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people. They need never know lonely hours so long as they have books surround them, and the better the books, the more delightful the company. From the good books, moreover, they draw much besides the entertainment, they gain mental food such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labor they are, through the books they read, they are equipping themselves to perform these labors more efficiently. This shall be it, they may not deliberately read it to improve their minds, all unconscious ideas they derived from the printed pages are stored up to be worked over by the imagination for their future profit.
