“They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.”
“Books have a world all their own ”
“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them ‘clever.”
“Books were in the world; the world was in books.”
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”