Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages. Books picture for us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas, fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves.


书对于人类来说是个体的记忆。它包含了我们人类种族的历史，我们的发现，我们多年来知识的积累。 书籍给我们描述了悲伤与痛苦，把几个小时的疲倦转换成瞬间的喜悦，把想法存储在我们脑中，用好的和开心的想法充实我们的大脑，并且让我们提升和超越自我。