The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
— Bulwer
Bulwer
Books preserve the past and history, evoking the spirits of ancient ages to warn and instruct the present generation through written words across centuries.
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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled…
— Dr. Johnson
As well almost kill a man, as kill a good book; for the life of the one is but a few short years, while that of the othe…
— Milton
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
— Joseph Brodsky
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whos…
— Milton
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
— H. W. Beecher
