Books Are True Levelers. They Give To

We Honor Revelation Too Highly To Make It The Antagonist Of Reason, Or To Believe That It Calls Us To Renounce Our Highest Powers.

Men Are Never Very Wise And Select In The Exercise Of A New Power.

My Highway Is Unfeatured Air, My Consorts Are The Sleepless Stars, And Men My Giant Arms Upbear My Arms Unstained And Free From Scars.

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.

To Extinguish The Free Will Is To Strike The Conscience With Death, For Both Have But One And The Same Life.