How important, then, is the selection of books which are to become a part of your being.
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us.

It cannot be bought or sold.

We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.
"Good books and the wild woods are two things with which man can never become too familiar," says George W.Cable.

"The friendship of trees is a sort of self-love and is very wholesome.

All inanimate nature is but a mirror, and it is greater far to have the sense of beauty than it is to be only its insensible depository.
"The books that inspire imagination, whether in truth or fiction; that elevate the thoughts, are the right kind to read.