“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”

“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.”

“In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.”

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”