Quotes by : Matthew Pearl

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that....

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men....

...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which....

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print

Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell,....

Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it.....

Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer,....

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the....

An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars,....

A man's library opens up his character to the world.