“Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clearAre the most choice companions we have here.”
“Friends, books and a cherfful heard and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here”
“A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.”
“These books are my friends, my companions.”
“He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend,a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocentlydivert and pleasantly entertain himself,as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.”
“A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.”