I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

The way a book is read- which is to say,
the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.