“nothing furnishes a room like books”
“Books do furnish a room.”
“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
“Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!”
“There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on). ”