4 Desiderius Erasmus Quotes on Books

Desiderius Erasmus quotes on books

1. Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque, ut pecuniam accpero, Graecus primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

5. Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

12. I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

13. It is the friendship of books that has made me perfectly happy.