Constance Cooper

Constance J. Cooper is the author of Rockford Tower (1990), Curtis Paper Company (1991), To Market To Market (1992) and 350 Years of New Castle, Delaware (2001), all published by Cedar Tree Books.

Mrs. Cooper received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Delaware. Her dissertation focused on New Castle in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Currently.

Constance is Director of Library and Archives at the Historical Society of Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware.

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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Henry Miller

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Martin Tupper

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

There are books...which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Constance Cooper

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