How science dwindles, and how volumes swell! [ Young ]

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. [ Dr. Johnson ]

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. [ Plutarch ]

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. [ Johnson ]

If the 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. [ Thackeray ]

He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets. [ Locke ]