Eugene Field Quote

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.


The love affairs of a biliomaniac (ed. 1896)


Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding...

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding...

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding...

Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding...