All who can read have got the ENTREE.
Would you laugh ?--Cervantes or Rabelais will laugh with you.

Do you grieve ?--there is Thomas a Kempis or Jeremy Taylor to grieve with and console you.

Always it is to books, and the spirits of great men embalmed in them, that we turn, for entertainment, for instruction and solace--in joy and in sorrow, as in prosperity and in adversity.
Man himself is, of all things in the world, the most interesting to man.

Whatever relates to human life--its experiences, its joys, its sufferings, and its achievements--has usually attractions for him beyond all else.

Each man is more or less interested in all other men as his fellow-creatures--as members of the great family of humankind; and the larger a man's culture, the wider is the range of his sympathies in all that affects the welfare of his race.
Men's interest in each other as individuals manifests itself in a thousand ways--in the portraits which they paint, in the busts which they carve, in the narratives which they relate of each other.