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Reading as a Defense of Virtue

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 44.

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Reading as a Defense of Virtue

THE habit of reading until one has made it a necessity of his life, is one of the defenses of virtue. When one's appetite is formed, it takes away from him the necessity of accepting what company he can find, and such excitements as may happen to be in his neighborhood; for a man who is armed with the books he loves, is independent of all other companionships and pleasures.—Sel.