Quotes by Milton, John

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensib >>

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a >>

Fear of change perplexes monarchs. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apost >>

Live always in the best company when you read. >>

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasu >>

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

Milton, John