I therefore most cheerfully recommend it to the public. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them.
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.
The love of knowledge comes with reading, and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices. A little library growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a young man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.