It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.