"Read, and you will know."

"Oh, mother, I would like to know everything."

"You can never know everything, my child. But you can learn many things
from books."

"Yes, mother, I will read and then I will know."

He was a very little boy, but before he was three years old he could
read quite well. When eight years of age he was the best scholar at
the famous school at Harrow. He was always reading, learning,
inquiring.

"I want to know; I want to know," he kept saying.

"Read, and you will know," said his mother. "Read books that are true.
Read about things that are beautiful and good. Read in order to become
wise.

"Do not waste your time in reading foolish books. Do not read bad
books, they will make you bad. No book is worth reading that does not
make you better or wiser."

And so William Jones went on reading and learning. He became one of
the most famous scholars in the world. The king of England made him
a knight and called him Sir William Jones. Sir William Jones lived
nearly two hundred years ago. He was noted for his great knowledge,
the most of which he had obtained from books. It is said that he could