Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

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

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

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.

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond