Books are the metempsychosis; the symbol and prophecy of immortality. The dead are scattered, and no one shall find them; but behold they are here.
H. W. Beecher
Books preserve the voices of the dead, granting them a kind of immortality.
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A book is the only immortality.
— R. Choate
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual lif…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
— Barrett
Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to…
— Addison
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
— Plato
Rooks are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
— E. P. Whipple
