“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”

“Books are cold but sure friends.”

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.”

“Books are cold but safe friends”

“M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.”

“La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte à la surface.”