There is a great quote from Pearl's "The Dante Club" that I wanted to share for anyone who loves to read, who understands the joy of learning...and the power of the written word.
"Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy...she will not have succeeded in that high sense which alone makes a nation out of a people. That which raises it from a dead name to a living power."
