Monk Reading

Famous quotes containing the words monk and/or reading:

“A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie,
An outridere, that lovede venerie,
A manly man, to been an abbot able.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)