“Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.” IfsHumansBookHardMistakeLaughingIgnoranceMastersApproachClothesShameDoctrineIgnorantInstructionCommodityInvestigatingHard Words Book:Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books Source: Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books
“Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.” IfsBookReadingLaughingMastersApproachIgnorantBreadBlunders Author:Richard de Bury
“In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.” IfsWorldChildrenBookWould BeLawAliveGloryAll ThingsAffairCeaseMortalsBuriedDecayRemedyOblivionSaturn Book:The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R Source: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R
