Famous quotes containing the word volumes:
“And let a scholar all earths volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary:
A mere articulate clock.”
—George Chapman (15591634)
“Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,a certain robust and radiant physical health; orshall I say?great volumes of animal heat.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“There is hardly a pioneers hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
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