KSIĄŻKOWE CYTATY (2)

Fragment z mojej ukochanej ostatnio książki, która czytam na wyrywki.

"HENRY PEACHAM. D. 1640.

Affect not, as some do, that bookish ambition, to be stored with books, and have well-furnished libriares, yet keep their heads empty of knowledge. To desire to have many books, and never use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. – The Compleat Gentleman."

Rudolf von Alt - The Library of the Palais Lanckoronski, Vienna

KSIĄŻKOWE CYTATY (1)

Books Are the Window of the Soul

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows. No man has the right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in a presence of books. The love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passion and voices. Let us pity these poor rich men who live barrenly in great bookless houses! Let us congratulate to the poor that, in our day, books are so cheap that a man may every year add a hundred volumes to his library for the price which his tobacco and his beer would cost him. Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, nothing to something, is that of forming and continually adding to a library of good books. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not luxury, but one of the necessities of life.”

-       -Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887): Sermons

Cytat z książki „Books” Geralda Donaldsona

Obraz: Francois Bonvin "Still life with Book, Papers and Inkwell"

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