The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books: On the Formation of Libraries, Public and Private; on Courses of Reading, Etc. With a Classified Bibliography for Easy Reference

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1877 - 343 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 303 - ... inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and in obscurity.
الصفحة 303 - The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guided him to truth. They have filled his mind with noble and graceful images. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes, comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude.

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