Vous craignez les livres comme certaines bourgades ont craint les violons. Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde. - Voltaire
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. - George Bernard Shaw
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire