Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought

We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from the fall; In you the Future as the Past is given-- Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-- Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven, Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!