Skip to content

Robert Southey on Books

d. 1843 England

← All quotes by Robert Southey

3 quotes

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.

When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked in what manner a man might best become learned, he answered, "By reading one book." The homo unius libri is indeed proverbially formidable to all conversational figurantes.

Go, little Book! From this my solitude
I cast thee on the Waters,—go thy ways:
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The World will find thee after many days.
Be it with thee according to thy worth:
Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Southey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.