When the old books spoke of this place, they had described it but badly.

But once they are published, he believes, the books should speak for themselves.

A book like this should not speak just to the converted.

"Because he lived the life, his books really speak to that population."

Why say more, he asks; the book speaks for itself.

That book spoke implicitly to those who run a company.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books.

The book will not speak to all children or all parents.

His books and ideas still speak to us over the years.

The book, published 150 years ago today, speaks to you.