. The book-lover's enchiridion; thoughts on the solace and companionship of books, and topics incidental thereto . h that we cannot afford toread much. I own this loftiness is rare, and we must long bethankful to our silent friends before the day comes when we canhonestly dismiss them. RUSKIN. Will you go and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable boy,when you may talk with kings and queens, while this eternal court isopen to you, with itssociety wide as the world, multitudinous as itsdays, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time ? Intothat you may enter always j in that youmay
. The book-lover's enchiridion; thoughts on the solace and companionship of books, and topics incidental thereto . h that we cannot afford toread much. I own this loftiness is rare, and we must long bethankful to our silent friends before the day comes when we canhonestly dismiss them. RUSKIN. Will you go and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable boy,when you may talk with kings and queens, while this eternal court isopen to you, with itssociety wide as the world, multitudinous as itsdays, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time ? Intothat you may enter always j in that youmay take fellowshipand rankaccording to your wish; from that, once entered in to it, you can neverbe outcast but by yourownfault; by your aristocracy of companion-ship there, your own inherent aristocracy will be assuredly tested,and tlie motives with which you strive to take high place in the societyof the living, measured, as to all the truth and sincerity that are inthem, by the place you desire to take in this company of the Dead. Infinite Riches in a little discani et anient vtentinisse Il/nii iihTc IIP ircrcdlloii or lm,)iiuSi or l/rrii/>r(>(I? I lieu iiNiif-H htnf it coinpaMtt of fivm;U- ./i/^r//onJ in dfiet/rle^ilfirni forhrl^ in (t^ .i/ia/i/ ui/ir//iii/ifiti? it)ir ) JivtHiJienurdf^ at- Ifoinc ^JlioinaJ) <Juf/cr THE Book*Xovcr0 jEncbiriMoit. Solomon, 1033—975. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.—Proverbs xiii. 20. A word spoken in due season, how good is it !—Proverbs xv. 23. Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears tothe words of knowledge,—Proverbs xxiii. 12. Socrates, 468—399. Employ your time in improving yourself by othermens writings; so you shall come easily by whatothers have laboured hard for. Prefer knowledge towealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. Plato, , 427—347. Books are the immortal sons deifying their sires,it 2 CICERO. Inscription on the Library at
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