Charles Kingsley Quote

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.


Twenty-five Village Sermons (ed. 1849)


Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps,...

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps,...

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps,...

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps,...