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Show (5ems of Hbouobt BOOKS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage oyer oral instructors, instruc-tors, that they are ready to repeat re-peat their lesson as often as we please. .Chambers. The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. James McCosh. Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former for-mer as by the latter. Paxton Hood. The Bible is the learned man's masterpiece, the ignorant man's dictionary, the wise man's directory. direc-tory. Mary Baker Eddy. No book can be so good as to be profitable when negligently read. Senaca. |