“Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.”
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
“Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.”
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”
“Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light?”
“...I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a vent, a ditch swarming with worms, a suffocating trap....”