Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.