Quotes about Volume

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.