Reading

 

G. K. Chesterton explains that reading gives a man more lives than he was born with:

“A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. 

The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never visited, spoken to men who died centuries ago, and walked in worlds that no longer exist. 

Reading does not merely inform him; it enlarges him. It stretches the boundaries of his own experience until he becomes something more than himself.”