John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury Quote

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.


In Praise of Books: A Vade Mecum for Book-lovers (ed. 1901)


We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.