Henry Giles Quotes (6 Quotes)

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly or he may work gratefully he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine. There is no work so rude, that he may not exalt it no work so impassive, that he may not breathe a soul into it no work so dull that he may not enliven it.

No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.