Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.