On My Bookshelf: Adult

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." ~Francis Bacon

"A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own." ~Douglas Jerrold

"...For he would rather have
at his bed's head
Some twenty books all bound
in black and red,
Than rich robes, fiddle or
gay psaltery" ~Chaucer

"There is no frigate like a book
to take you lands away
Nor any coursers like a page
of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take
without oppress of toll
how frugal is the chariot
that bears the human soul!"~Emily Dickinson

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