Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Books – Reading
Quotations by Sir John Denham
Quotes :
- Paulus Jovius – books “They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.” ~Paulus Jovius (also known as Paolo Giovio, Italian Physician, Historian,)
- "This budget is like an Enron budget —… "This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out." - Senator John Kerry
- E. F. Schumacher – materialism “Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual. Such a life necessarily sets man against man and nation against nation, because man’s needs are infinite and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.” ~E. F. Schumacher
- "He who studies books alone will know how… "He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are." - Charles Caleb Colton