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Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.
It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where read more
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The medicine chest of the soul.
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One read more
The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very
speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance
round his book-shelves.
