a man may uually be known by the book he read a well a by the company he keep: for there i a companionhip of book a well a of men; and one hould alway live in the bet company, whether it be of book or of men.
a good book may be among the bet of friend. it i the ame today that it alway wa, and it will never change. it i the mot patient and cheerful of companion. it doe not turn it back upon u in time of trouble or ditre. it alway receive u with the ame kindne, amuing and intructing u
in youth, and comforting u in age.
book poe an extract having the fundamental propertie of immortality. they are by far the mot lating product of human effort. temple and tatue decay, but book urvive. time i of no account with great thought, which are a freh today a when they firt paed through their author＇
mind age ago. the only effect of time ha been to ift out the bad product, for nothing in literature can long urvive but what i really good.
book introduce u into the bet ociety: they bring u into the preence of the greatet mind that have ever lived. we hear what they aid and did. we ee them a if they were really alive; we ympathize with them, enjoy with them, hurt with them; their experience become our, and we feel a if we were, in a meaure, actor with them in the cene which they decribe.[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]
the great and good do not die even in thi world. embalmed in book, their pirit walk abroad. the book i a living voice. it i an intellect to which one till liten. hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. the great intellect of the world are a much alive now a they were age ago.