Carol E. Hoffecker

Carol E. Hoffecker, a native Delawarean is Richards Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware where she taught for thirty years. She is the author of many books and journal articles about Delaware, Delawareans, the city of Wilmington and the University of Delaware.

Among her publications are: Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century (1983), Delaware, the First State (1988), Federal Justice in the First State, A History of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (1992), Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of Women at the University of Delaware (1994), Honest John Williams, U.S. Senator from Delaware (2000), and Democracy in Delaware (2004).

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Democracy in Delaware: The Story of the First State's General Assembly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

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Carol E. Hoffecker

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