The institution that represents little toil but little time endures.

Man's early history is involved in obscurity, largely because his early arts were mushroomic--completed quickly, they quickly perished.

The ideas scratched upon the flat leaf or the thin reed represented scant labor and therefore soon were dust.

But he who holds in his hand a modern book holds the fruitage of years many and long.

For that book we see the workmen ranging far for linen; we see the printer toiling upon his movable types; we see the artist etching his plate; the author giving his days to study and his nights to reflection; and because the book harvests the study of a great man's lifetime it endures throughout generations.