Book Quote by John Milton

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

— John Milton

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

— John Milton

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit"―”

— John Milton

“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured…

— John Milton

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Books are embalmed minds.

— Anonymous

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their…

— Laurel Lea

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

— Jason Ellis