Fallen/books

Famous quotes containing the words fallen and/or books:

“Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)