He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.