Thomas Babington Macaulay on Books
1800–1859 England
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I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
* * * A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1831)
The English Bible,—a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
John Dryden', The Edinburgh Review (1828)
That wonderful book [The Pilgrim's Progress], while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!