“The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".”

“Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.”

“The greatest university 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.”

“It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.”

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