"Then we see how far more durable are the monuments of spirit and learning than the monuments of power or hands. For the verses of Homer would not have continued more than twenty-five hundred years without a syllable or letter being lost, by during which, unfinished palaces, temples, castles, cities have declined or been destroyed".
A Hymn to Knowledge by Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
"Read not, as children do, to be amused, Or, as the ambitious do, to learn. No. Read to live."
A nice prompt from Gustave Flaubert.