Devote some of your leisure to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book-lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people. They never know lonely hours so long as they have books around them， and the better the books the more delightful the company. From good books， moreover， they draw much besides entertainment. Even while resting from their labors they are， through the books they read， equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously， the ideas they derive from the printed pages are stored up， to be worked over by the imagination for their future profit.

把你的一部分空閑時間用來培養(yǎng)閱讀好書的習(xí)慣吧。那些設(shè)法使自己成為真正的愛讀書的人的確是幸運(yùn)的，因?yàn)樗麄儽葎e人有明顯的優(yōu)勢。只要手頭有書，他們就從來不知寂寞。書越好，讀起來越是津津有味。他們不但從好書中得到樂趣，而且受到很多教益。即使在工作之余休息時，通過讀書，他們的工作效率也能更加提高，盡管他們未必有意識地想到讀書是為了提高才智。在全然不知不覺之中，他們從書中汲取的知識積累起來，經(jīng)過想象力的加工，對將來大有用處。