A home without books is a body without soul.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
I cannot live without books.
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.