Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to those that are yet unborn.
— Addison
Addison
Books pass genius down as gifts from one generation to the next.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
— Barrett
Books are the metempsychosis; the symbol and prophecy of immortality. The dead are scattered, and no one shall find them…
— H. W. Beecher
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly wrought out by a single mind, without the aid of prior…
— Dr. Johnson
Rooks are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
— E. P. Whipple
A book is the only immortality.
— R. Choate
As well almost kill a man, as kill a good book; for the life of the one is but a few short years, while that of the othe…
— Milton
