“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“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.”