CHAPTER X--COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS.
"Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness can grow."-- WORDSWORTH.
"Not only in the common speech of men, but in all art too-- which is or should be the concentrated and conserved essence of what men can speak and show--Biography is almost the one thing needful" -- CARLYLE.
"I read all biographies with intense interest.

Even a man without a heart, like Cavendish, I think about, and read about, and dream about, and picture to myself in all possible ways, till he grows into a living being beside me, and I put my feet into his shoes, and become for the time Cavendish, and think as he thought, and do as he did." -- GEORGE WILSON.
"My thoughts are with the dead; with them I live in long-past years; Their virtues love, their faults condemn; Partake their hopes and fears; And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with a humble mind."-- SOUTHEY.
A man may usually be known by the books he reads, as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends.

It is the same to-day that it always was, and it will never change.

It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.

It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.