“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”
“A home without books is a body without soul.”
“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”
“So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.”
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
“In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.”
“The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.”
“This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.”
“Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.”
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