“ House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself. ”
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: Live for that better day.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in
Books are humanity in print.
