英语摘抄好句好段阅读的名著摘抄

『壹』 英语名著经典句子

All human wisdom is summed up in two words ?C wait and hope.
人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词 — 等待和希望。—— Alexandre Dumas Pére大仲马（法国作家）
It is not enough to be instrious, so are the ants. What are you instrious for?
光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。—— H. D. Thoreau梭罗
You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.
人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。—— charles Chaplin卓别林
Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
没有什么比独立自由更可宝贵的了。—— [越南] Ho Chi Minh胡志明
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
我不缅怀过去的历史，而致力于未来的梦想。—— T. Jefferson 杰弗逊（美国第3任总统）

《双城记》英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry.
没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them.
失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某个人，你是他的整个世界。

Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you.
不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。

Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have.
爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你，那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。

Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting theright one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how tobe grateful.
在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人；在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。

Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。

If you love someone， let it be and set him／her free，if he／she comes back to you，it"s meant to be.
如果你爱一个人，随遇而安，让他／她自由的飞，如果最后他／她还是回到你身边，那就是命中注定的。

Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
爱就是永远不必说对不起。（《爱情故事》）
I'd found my best love .But i didn't treasure her.I felt regretful after that,It's the ultimate pain in the world!Just cut my throat ,Pleasee don't hesitate!If god can give me a chance.I'll tell her three words:"i love you"!If god wanna give me a time limit.I'll say this love will last 10 thousand years!
曾经有一份真诚的爱情放在我面前，我没有珍惜，等我失去的时候我才后悔莫及，人世间最痛苦的事莫过于此。你的剑在我的咽喉上割下去吧！不用再犹豫了！如果上天能够给我一个再来一次的机会，我会对那个女孩子说三个字：我爱你。如果非要在这份爱上加上一个期限，我希望是一万年！（大话西游）

To be or not to be, that’s a question.-"Hamlet"生存还是死亡，这是一个问题。《哈姆雷特》
We become the most familiar strangers.
我们变成了世上最熟悉的陌生人。－－－Gone with the wind《乱世佳人》
love waking up in the morning and not knowing what’s going to happen, or who I’m going to meet, where I’m going to wind up.(Titanic)
我喜欢早上起来时一切都是未知的,不知会遇见什么人,会有什么样的结局。 《泰坦尼克号》
WILLIAM wallace："Fight, and you may die. run, and you'll live at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now. Would you be willing to trade? All the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freedom! Freedom——
" 威廉华莱士："是啊，如果战斗，可能会死。如果逃跑，至少还能活。年复一年，直到寿终正寝。你们！愿不愿意用这么多苟活的日子去换一个机会，就一个机会！那就是回来，告诉敌人，他们也许能夺走我们的生命，但是，他们永远夺不走我们的自由！" "我们的自由！！ 《勇敢的心》
一《Shawshank Redemption肖申克的救赎》
1.You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright.
你知道，有些鸟儿是注定不会被关在牢笼里的，它们的每一片羽毛都闪耀着自由的光辉。

2.There is something inside ,that they can't get to , that they can't touch. That's yours.
那是一种内在的东西, 他们到达不了,也无法触及的,那是你的。

3.Hope is a good thing and maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
希望是一个好东西,也许是最好的,好东西是不会消亡的。

二《Forrest Gump 阿甘正传》
1.Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
生命就像一盒巧克力，结果往往出人意料。

2.Stupid is as stupid does.
蠢人做蠢事(傻人有傻福)。

3.Miracles happen every day.
奇迹每天都在发生。

4.Jenny and I was like peas and carrots.
我和珍妮形影不离。

5.Have you given any thought to your future?
你有没有为将来打算过呢。

6． You just stay away from me please.
求你离开我。

7． If you are ever in trouble, don't try to be brave, just run, just run away.
你若遇上麻烦，不要逞强，你就跑，远远跑开。

8． It made me look like a ck in water.
它让我如鱼得水。

9． Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
死亡是生命的一部分，是我们注定要做的一件事。

10． I was messed up for a long time.
这些年我一塌糊涂。

11． I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally―like on a breeze.
我不懂我们是否有着各自的命运，还是只是到处随风飘荡。

『贰』 英语名著简爱的好句，好段落。

1，Life is too short, can not be used vengeful build hate生命太短促，不能用来记仇蓄恨

2，Do you think,because I am poor,obscure,plain,and littele,I am soulless and heartless?You think wrong!-I have as much soul as you-and full as much heart!难道就因为我一贫如洗，默默无闻，长相平庸，个子瘦小，就没有灵魂，没有心肠了——你想错了，我的心灵跟你一样丰富，我的心胸一样充实！

3，I think the bird flies but the sea birds fly, is that no courage of the sea, years later I discovered, not the bird flies past, but not the other side of the sea, and had no waiting我以为小鸟飞不过沧海，是以为小鸟没有飞过沧海的勇气，十年以后我才发现，不是小鸟飞不过去，而是沧海的那一头，早已没有了等待

4，You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. 你知道，有些鸟儿是注定不会被关在樊笼里的，它们的每一片羽毛都闪耀着自由的光辉。

5，There is something inside ,that they can't get to , that they can't touch. That's yours.
那是一种内在的东西, 他们抵达不了,也无法触及的,那是你的。

6，Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
生命就像一盒巧克力，结果每每出人意料。

7，Miracles happen every day.
古迹每天都在产生

8，It made me look like a ck in water. 它让我如鱼得水。

9，I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally like on a breeze.
我不懂我们能否有着各自的运气，还是只是随处随风飘荡。

10、Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.
世界上全部的生命都在微妙的平衡中生活。

11，If god had gifted me with wealth and beauty, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you.Life is too short, can not be used vengeful build hate如果上帝给我了美貌和财富，让我离开他们就像让我离开你一样困难，生命太短促，不能用来记仇蓄恨

12，But I tell you, you are. So much depressed that a few words more would bring tears to your eyes. Indeed, they are there now, shinning and swimming. Who the hell is that?但我告诉你，你的确是在伤心，如此地伤心，我要是再多说一句话，你就会掉眼泪了。没错，你已经在流泪了，泪光闪闪的。是哪个鬼家伙在那吵？

13， "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me." 我一直坚持，一件对我来说是新的东西

14 ， "Reader, I married him."准备好，我要和他结婚了

15 ，"you would do me good in some way, at some time: I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you; their expression and smile did not.strike delight to my inmost heart so for nothing" 你将在某些时候做的比我好，当我第一次看见在你们转身过后的眼睛，他们没有表情也没有微笑，在我的心里也没有落下任何东西。

『叁』 英文名著摘抄，注意是一本书的摘抄。可以是一段。一共要200字的3段以上 句子5句以上。

"Let us take the stuff home," the boy said. "So I can get the cast net and go after the sardines."
They picked up the gear from the boat. The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden bo,4 with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft. The box with the ts was under the stern of the skiff along with the club that was used to sube the big fish when they were brought alongside. No one would steal from the old man but it was better to take the sail and the heavy lines home as the dew was bad for them and, though he was quite sure no local people would steal from him, the old man thought that a gaff and a harpoon were needless temptations to leave in a boat.
They walked up the road together to the old man's shack and went in through its open door. The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it. The mast was nearly as long as the one room of the shack. The shack was made of the tough budshields of the royal palm which are called guano and in it there was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal. On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. These were relics of his wife. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too
lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.
摘自《老人与海》海明威
这里有三百多个字

『肆』 英语名著简写本好句摘抄 需要30句

《傲慢与偏见》
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
想给我们的喜好找个理由时，脑袋转的是最快的。
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
越该做的事，就越急不得。
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
在实际生活中我是个自私的人，但在原则上不是。
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
心灵的柔软是最大的魅力。
《简爱》
Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automation? A machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?
Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am souless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you--and full as much heart! And if god had gifted me with some beauty and wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to live me, as it is now for me to live you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh--it is my spirit that address your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave and we stood at God's feet--equal--as we are!
你以为我会无足轻重的留在这里吗？你以为我是一架没有感情的机器人吗？你以为我贫穷、低微、不美、缈小，我就没有灵魂，没有心吗？你想错了，我和你有一样多的灵魂，一样充实的心。如果上帝赐予我一点美，许多钱，我就要你难以离开我，就象我现在难以离开你一样。我现在不是以社会生活和习俗的准则和你说话，而是我的心灵同你的心灵讲话。仿佛我们已经穿越了坟墓穿越了生死来到上帝的脚下——平等——我们生来如此！

『伍』 外国名著 摘抄好句 中英文

1.我们整天忙忙碌碌，像一群群没有灵魂的苍蝇，喧闹着，躁动着，听不到灵魂深处的声音。时光流逝，童年远去，我们渐渐长大，岁月带走了许许多多的回忆，也消蚀了心底曾今拥有的那份童稚的纯真，我们不顾心灵桎梏，沉溺于人世浮华，专注于利益法则，我们把自己弄丢了。——比彻·斯托《小王子》

2.生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方一定会变成我们最强壮的地方。——海明威《老人与海》

3.回忆就是这样的，即使是那些充满深情厚爱的回忆也概莫能外，好像脑子里有一种无意识的愈合过程，尽管我们曾痛下决心永勿忘，但它依然能使创伤愈合。——考琳·麦卡洛《荆棘鸟》

4.这个家庭的历史是一架周而复始无法停息的机器，是一个转动着的轮子，这只齿轮，要不是轴会逐渐不可避免地磨损的话，会永远旋转下去。——加西亚·马尔克斯《百年孤独》

5.过去都是假的，回忆是一条没有归途的路，以往的一切春天都无法复原，即使最狂热最坚贞的爱情，归根结底也不过是一种瞬息即逝的现实，唯有孤独永恒。——加西亚·马尔克斯《百年孤独》

6.我是说孩子们都在狂奔，也不知道自己是在往哪儿跑，我得从什么地方出来，把他们捉住。我整天就干这样的事。我只想当个麦田的守望者。我知道这有点异想天开，可我真正喜欢干的就是这个。——杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格《麦田里的守望者》

7.我们确实活得艰难，一要承受种种外部的压力，更要面对自己内心的困惑。在苦苦挣扎中，如果有人向你投以理解的目光，你会感到一种生命的暖意，或许仅有短暂的一瞥，就足以使我感奋不已。——杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格《麦田里的守望者》

8.你以为我贫穷、相貌平平就没有感情吗?我向你发誓，如果上帝赋予我财富和美貌，我会让你无法离开我，就像我现在无法离开你一样。虽然上帝没有这么做，可我们在精神上依然是平等的。——夏洛蒂·勃朗特《简爱》

9.我并不愿意你受的苦比我受的还大，希斯克利夫。我只愿我们永远不分离：如果我有一句话使你今后难过，想想我在地下也感到一样的难过，看在我自己的份上，饶恕我吧!——艾米莉·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》

10.我爱他脚下的土地，头顶上的空气，他触摸过的每一件东西，他说过的每一句话，我爱他所有的神情，每一个动作，还有他整个人，他的全部。——艾米莉·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》

『陆』 英语名著简爱读书笔记。也可以是好句好段。关键是要英文的！要注明中文翻译。 五十句左右。

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!
Jane to Mr. Rochester (Ch. 23)

你以为我穷，不好看，就 没有感情吗？我也会的，如果上帝赋予我财富和美貌，我一定使你难于离开我！ 就象现在我难于离开你！上帝没有这样！我们的精神是同等的！就如同你跟我经 过坟墓，将同样站在上帝面前！

『柒』 英语好词好句好段摘抄大全

1.For beautiful eyes, lookm for the good in others.
2.Comedy is acting out optimism.

『捌』 英语名著摘抄

1、 Monkey is not everying,there's Mastercard & Visa.
钞票不是万能的，有时还需要用信用卡。
2、One should like animals,because they are two tasty.
每个人都应该热爱动物，因为它们很好吃。版
3、Behind every successful man,there is a woman,and behind every unsuccessful man,there are two.
每个成功的男人背权后都有一个女人，每个不成功的男人背后都有两个女人。

『玖』 英语名著 摘抄

1.Money is not everything. There's Mastercard ＆ Visa.

钞票不是万能的,有时还需要信用卡.

2.One should love animals.They are so tasty.

每个人都应该热爱动物,因为它们很好吃.

3.Behind every successful man, there is a woman.And behind every unsuccessful man ,there are two.

每个成功男人的背后都有一个女人,每个不成功男人背后都有两个女人.

4.Every man should marry.After all,happiness is not the only thing in life.

再快乐的单身汉迟早也会结婚,幸福不是永久的.

5.The wise never marry,and when they marry they become otherwise.

聪明的人都是未婚的,结婚的人很难再聪明起来.

6.Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

成功是一个相关名词,它会给你带来很多不相关的亲戚.

7.Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

不要等明天交不上差再找借口,今天就要找好.

8.Love is photogenic.It needs darkness to develop.

爱情就像照片,需要大量的暗房时间来培养.

9."your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.

"现在的梦想决定着你的将来",所以还是再睡一会吧.

10.There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

应该有更好的方式开始新一天,而不是千篇一律的在每个上午都醒来.

『拾』 英语好段摘抄

A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to associate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes within themselves. This sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it, and I think it is a good thing that they do not.许多人在谈到家的时候往往将它和某种气氛,某种环境及内心的某些情感态度联系在一起.这种对家的依恋情感古已有之,代代相传.许多现代人不再有了,我认为这是件好事.In the old days life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. They did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones which could summon the police instantly. How did this influence the way people felt about home? Small family groups clung tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Only the bravest went beyond the small family area. Even in the Middle Ages only the most daring went to lands beyond sea. The human pursuit of security conditioned men to love their homes. I am sure that this feeling must have been very strong among the early settlers of the United States who were obliged, by famine and oppression, to take the plunge and go to the new land where they knew no one and where they were subject to Indian attack. We can see this even today in the attitudes of minority groups who, because of a feeling of insecurity, still preserve cohesive family ties.在遥远的过去，人们生活十分艰难．敌人可能会攻击你，杀害你或抢动你的财富，而你却毫无还手之力．人们并不住在可以锁门闭户的构造坚固的房子里．他们没有一支有组织的警察队伍的保护，也不能随时打电话报警．这些怎样影响人们对于家的感情呢？小小家庭的成员紧密团结，聚在一起，共同抵御野兽和敌人．只有最勇敢的人才离开小小的家族管辖区．甚至在中世纪也只有最勇敢的人才敢涉足海外．人类对安全的追求决定了人们对家的热爱．我相信，美国的早期定居者对此一定深有感触．他们被饥茺压迫得走投无路，只好毅然决定冒险来到这个举目元亲．易爱印第安人攻击的陌生的地方．甚至今天，我们从少数民族团体的态度也可以看出这一点．由于缺乏安全感，他们仍然保持着富有凝聚力的家庭纽带．Today, thanks to modern transportation and well-organized societies, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the oftener they do so, the less sentiment they are likely to have for those surroundings. I lived in England for three years, and I noticed that boys and girls left their parents’ homes and lived in dwellings of their own. There they could just telephone and ask an agency to provide them with a house or an apartment, which was their home. How has the meaning of this word home been altered by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living in first one hotel and then another? I believe that for them home means a place where they can have privacy.今天，由于有了现代交通和组织良好的社会，成千上万的人们愿意并且渴望离开他们出生的环境．而且，他们离家外出越频繁，对出生的环境的情感就可能越少．我曾经在英国，他们只需拿起电话，要求一家房地产经销处提供一幢房子或一个套间，那就是他们的家了．家这个词的意义是如何被这种行为改变的呢？家对于那些经常流动，从一家旅馆到另一家旅馆居住的人们或家庭成员又意味着什么呢？我认为，家对他们来说是一个离群独外不受干扰的地方．This idea of home as being a place of privacy is emerging in my country, Saudi Arabia, where the young are abandoning their parents’ homes to live their own life. As for me, the atmosphere and surroundings of the place where my parents live have no sentimental attachment. Home is where I can shut the door and be by myself. At the moment it is a room in Eaton Hall. When I left my parents several years ago, I was anxious to leave. You might call it unfeeling, but that was the way I felt. On the day of my departure for the United States, my grandmother sobbed and wept. My father, however, indicated that he understood how I felt. “Son,” he said, “I am not sorry that you are leaving us. I only hope that you make the most of your time.在我的国家沙特陈拉伯，年轻人放弃父母的家去过他们自己的生活．这种把家作为私人独处这地的看法正在我的国家形成．我对父母居住之地的气氛，环境没有眷恋的情感．家就是一个我能关起门来独处的地方．现在我的家就是伊登宿舍的一个房间．几年前当我离开父母时，我没有恋恋不舍，巴不得快快离开．你也许会觉得这是无情无义，然而那确实是我的感受．我离家去美国寻卫，祖母呜咽，泪流不止．但我的父亲却表时他能理解我的心情．”孩子”他说”我对于你的离去并觉得悲伤．我只希望你能充分利用时间．” Youth

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to st.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）
Three Days to See

All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.

Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.

In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.

Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in alt life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time ring his early alt life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）
Companionship of Books

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.

Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting procts of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad procts; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.

Books introce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.