Normal yellow text Barry Cornwall, in My Books. Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. Caleb Charles Colton. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. Caleb Charles Colton.
Books are true levellers.
They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. William Ellery Channing the Younger. 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. William Ellery Channing the Younger.