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ફાર્બસજીવનચરિત્ર. “With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead: “The dead ;" methinks a thousand tongues reply; These are the tombs of such as cannot die ! Crowned with eternal fame, they sit sublime. And laugh at all little strife of time."
The Library by George Crabbe. "The animate spirit has even consented to shut itself up in the inanimate thing a bookand there retains its ancient prerogative of befriending and teaching, encouraging and delighting, its fellow-spirits."
Culture and Self-culture by Samual Neil, page. 51
“Coal has been beautifully described as the treasured sun.beams of pre-Adamite eras,-capable of glowing, brightening and heating now, even as before their prisoned light was packed and sealed up for the behoof of coming ages; yea, made all the more useful and precious by their portability and adaptability. If coal may thus be said to cast forth the latent sunrays of long by-gone times, what shall we call those treasure-cities of the soul-books which send forth from each page, as if from a deftly painted window, the light and glory of thought-the thought of those who have partaken.
“Of that immortal death that leads to life ?”
How brilliant yet substantial are the textures with which the intellect, "plying fast her golden shuttles" in the loom of time, weaves for herself as raiment, and adorns herself, while transforming thought into literature, feeling into music, and investigation into science!”
Culture and Self-culture by Samuel Neli, page 72
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
