It exhibits what life is capable of being made.

It refreshes our spirit, encourages our hopes, gives us new strength and courage and faith--faith in others as well as in ourselves.

It stimulates our aspirations, rouses us to action, and incites us to become co-partners with them in their work.

To live with such men in their biographies, and to be inspired by their example, is to live with the best of men, and to mix in the best of company.
At the head of all biographies stands the Great Biography, the Book of Books.

And what is the Bible, the most sacred and impressive of all books--the educator of youth, the guide of manhood, and the consoler of age--but a series of biographies of great heroes and patriarchs, prophets, kings, and judges, culminating in the greatest biography of all, the Life embodied in the New Testament?
How much have the great examples there set forth done for mankind! How many have drawn from them their truest strength, their highest wisdom, their best nurture and admonition! Truly does a great Roman Catholic writer describe the Bible as a book whose words "live in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten--like the sound of church bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego.