A House Without Books Is Like A

To Know The Machine One Must Know Where Each Part Belongs, And What Its Office Is.

Give Me A House Furnished With Books Rather Than Furniture! Both, If You Can, But Books At Any Rate!

A House Without Books Is Like A Room Without Windows. No Man Has A Right To Bring Up His Children Without Surrounding Them With Books, If He Has The Means To Buy Them. It Is A Wrong To His Family. He Cheats Them! Children Learn To Read By Being In The Presence Of Books. The Love Of Knowledge Comes With Reading And Grows Upon It.

Both Poetry And Philosophy Are Prodigal Of Eulogy Over The Mind Which Ransoms Itself By Its Own Energy From A Captivity To Custom, Which Breaks The Common Bounds Of Empire, And Cuts A Simplon Over Mountains Of Difficulty For Its Own Purposes, Whether Of Good Or Of Evil.

I Look Upon Phrenology As The Guide To Philosophy And The Handmaid Of Christianity. Whoever Disseminates True Phrenology Is A Public Benefactor.