“News, the manna of a day.”—Green.
“They whom truth and wisdom lead can gather honey from a word.”—Cooper.
“Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”—Gray.
“Reading maketh a full man.”—Bacon.
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”—Lytton.
“Every worthy citizen reads a newspaper and owns the paper he reads.”—Beecher.
“His verse is lusty as a trooper’s oath.”—Viscount Valrose.
“Thus men ascend to the stars.”—Virgil.
“Hath thy toil o’er books consumed the midnight-oil?”—Gay.
“Books are * * * the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.”—Mrs. Browning.