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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. The best books have most beauty.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fulness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)