Book Lust

Famous quotes containing the words book and/or lust:

    A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)