F R E D E R I C C. B E I L, P U B L I S H E R

"Life being very short, and the quiet hours few,

we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."

—John Ruskin

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."

—St. Augustine

"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

"Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails,

but, like beauty itself, is a joy forever."

—Holbrook Jackson

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit,

embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

—John Milton

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been:

it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

—Thomas Carlyle

"In the best books, great men talk to us,
give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
God be thanked for books.
They are the voices of the distant and the dead,
and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them,
the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest."

—William Ellery Channing

"We all know that books burn—yet we have
the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire.
People die, but books never die.
No man and no force can abolish memory. . . .
In this war, we know, books are weapons."

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside of us."

—Franz Kafka

"Every creature is full of God and is a book about God."

—Meister Eckhardt

[On the left, that's Scamper McGowan of Charlotte, N.C.]

"A book, too, can be a star,

a living fire to lighten the darkness,

leading out into the expanding universe."

—Madeleine L'Engle

"In a good bookroom

you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing

the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin,

without even opening them."

—Mark Twain

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. . . .

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

—Henry David Thoreau

"The love of learning,

the sequestered nooks,

And all the sweet serenity of books."

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A truly great book should be read in youth,

again in maturity and once more in old age,

as a fine binding should be seen by morning light,

at noon and by moonlight."

—Robertson Davies

Founded in 1982, Frederic C. Beil Publisher is an independent publishing company in Savannah, Georgia,
producing ten to twelve titles a year. Beil publishes general trade books in the fields of history, biography, and fiction.
While underway, the company has remained on course by offering to the reading public carefully selected texts
of lasting value, adhering to high standards in bookmaking craftsmanship, and producing books that exemplify
good taste in format and design.

"Beil's books are handsome, durable, and designed with obvious thought for the connection between a text
and the ways it is printed and bound."—St. Petersburg Times

"Beil's books are elegantly designed and handsomely bound; and they help to confirm my suspicion
—doubtless irrational—that, in a small way, beautiful books advance the cause of literature."—Sewanee Review

"[Beil's list exemplifies] discernment in the selection of titles . . . and keen attention to how a book is produced."
—New York Times