A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, e... - John Milton, Areopagitica
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
"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."