Mariam

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis