I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
New Haven cultivates. . . an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. . . . I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
. . . how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.
Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
