"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
~ Samuel Butler (novelist) ~












Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
More Samuel Butler (novelist) quotes
"We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniat...
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
"Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear
"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
"We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniat...
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
"Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.