“The greatest university 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.”
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”
“Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)”
“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”