“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”
“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”
“How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.”