“Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!”

“What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?”

“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing.”

“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”

“Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”

“Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.”

“Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”

“Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.”

“The Word equals the book or, holy scripture. That is religion.”