Book

"Which one hundred writers should we choose to keep us company until death? Only travelling book agents have the answer ready. Some other people think that it is impossible to list a hundred such writers. Another writer is needed for the short man. Another for the tall man. Another for the woman. Different for the man. Another for the young. Different for the old. For the body at all times, at all ranks, one book is enough - the cookbook. But the soul develops till late old age, and goes up many steps. It is by his reading that any man may judge his progress. What a distance separates fairy tales from real stories! From interest in physical struggles! Our animal age from our spiritual age! The human soul is shed in books."