“There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!”

Emily Dickinson [1830-1886]
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 647.