When we purchase a book we should be sure to obtain the best edition and be careful that it is printed from good type and on clear paper.

Books are likely to become warm friends.

We should never purchase an abridged edition.
Binding is not such an important factor, although we like to have _our favorite books_ put up in a handsome fashion.

With Shakespeare, Emerson, Roosevelt, Scott, Cooper, Marden and Hubbard one would have quite a representative collection for a start.

It would be easy to expand the list into many more.