““What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.””
![“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.” quote by Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/31b/cornelia-funke-908_books_a-longing-for-books-is-nothing-compared_333799.jpg)
![“The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.” quote by John Bright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/496/john-bright-17156_america_the-aristocratic-institutions-of-england_603886.jpg)
![“This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.” quote by John Bright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/877/john-bright-17156_aristocracy_this-old-aristocracy-and-church-ridden-a_1004091.jpg)
