Let them be of such a nature that when we read them we will feel like going out into the world to accomplish something _big_! That is probably the mission of great books--to inspire and uplift.

The world's greatest men have been readers--would they have cared for books unless they were inspiring?
It is said that when Napoleon was being taken to St.Helena he advised one of the officers never to stop reading.
Most of the things worth while are at some time or other stored away in books by the thinkers.

Every phase of history, every movement to better mankind and lift it above the drudgery of mere toil, every beautiful thought is to be found in them and the better the book the more will be found in it of these very things.

When we have finished the day's work we can pull down a volume from the shelf and in a moment be lost in an entirely different world.

The man who neglects to read surely misses the one best means of broadening his mind.
All books of the better class furnish food for thought and are excellent tools for the man of initiative.