“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”

“Welcome to my library! Ever since my high school days, books and magazines have been to my mind what friends are in the flesh. Each and every one of these books and articles-- a fraction of the 12,000 volumes that I share my house with-- has contributed to expanding my dream.”

“I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudie's, and it makes me very angry if anyone gives me one for my private library.”

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”

“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”

“For ten years I never left my books;
I went up … and won unmerited praise.
My high place I do not much prize;
The joy of my parents will first make me proud.”

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

“The world that I regard is my selfe, it is the Microcosme of mine owne frame, that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my Globe, and turne it round sometimes for my recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing onely my condition, and fortunes, do erre in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.”

“If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry.
Jessamine Lovelace.”