A small number of choice books are sufficient. t. VOLTAIRE-A Philosophical Books are made from books. U. VOLTAIRE--A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1. Sec. 1. It is with books as with men; a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude. v. VOLTAIRE A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1. You despise books; you whose whole lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure, or in indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. w. VOLTAIRE--A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1. They are for company the best friends in Doubts Counsellors, in Damps Comforters, Time's Prospective, the Home Traveller's Ship or Horse, the busie Man's best Recreation, the Opiate of idle Weariness, the Mindes best Ordinary, Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality. x. BULSTRODE WHITELOCK-Zootamia. 1654. Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. y. WORDSWORTH--Poetical Works. Personal Talk. Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YOUNG-Love of Fame. Satire VII. Line 94. Z. |