Volumes

Famous quotes containing the word volumes:

“And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary:
A mere articulate clock.”
—George Chapman (1559–1634)

“These volumes contain not the highest, but a very practicable wisdom, which startles and provokes, rather than informs us. Carlyle does not oblige us to think; we have thought enough for him already, but he compels us to act.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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