Small Volumes

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or volumes:

“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain’s exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without—oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)