On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 40.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 38.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 36.
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part.
First Part of Narrative
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
In Praise of Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
On Lewis Carroll; p. 105.
"Confessions of a Caricaturist", vol. 1 (1901)
