Most things cannot be enjoyed without friends — but reading can. While sitting alone in our house we can travel around the entire world, and we can understand the reason for thousands of things. Living in this age we can talk with those who lived thousands of years ago. Reading broadens our experience. It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries ago. Although we may be unworthy, we can become the friends of wise men. Only books can give us these pleasures. Those who cannot enjoy them are poor men; those who enjoy them most obtain the most happiness from them.
