The written word is everything.
Writing preserves only the thought of literate peoples.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
Books are humanity in print.
