Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Categories: Books

Please suggest source details if you know: book, page, year, online article address (url), correction (different author...), etc.. Thanks.