… around my daily paths. I walk, in imagination, with the noblest spirits, through the most sublime and enchanting regions.
If anyone would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a little house with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.:)>-