Libraries Are Not Made, They Grow.

Good As It Is To Inherit A Library, It Is Better To Collect One.

It Is The Mass The Matters.

Given Pounds And Five Years, And An Ordinary Man Can In The Ordinary Course, Without Any Undue Haste Or Putting Any Pressure Upon His Taste, Surround Himself With Books, All In His Own Language, And Thence Forward Have At Least One Place In The World.

I Am Far Too Much In Doubt About The Present, Far Too Perturbed .about The Future, To Be Otherwise Than Profoundly Reverential About The Past.

That Great Dust-heap Called 'history'.