Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.