Edward Bulwer-Lytton on Books
1803–1873 England
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Caxtoniana (1862)
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
The Caxtons (1849)
Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Ernest Maltravers (1837)
No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!
The Caxtons (1849)
I come not here to learn the horn-book of war…
Harold (1848)
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still!
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
We call some books immortal! Do they live?
If so, believe me, TIME hath made them pure.
In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.
The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their graves they rise.
Angels—that, side by side, upon our way,
Walk with and warn us!