Books are like imprisoned ...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
 Samuel Butler

More phrases

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
 Samuel Butler
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
 Samuel Butler
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
 Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
 Samuel Butler
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
 Samuel Butler