I look upon a library as a kind of mental chemists shop, filled with the crystals of all forms and hues which have come from the union of individual thought with local circumstances or universal principles. Holmes.The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Chap. I.
I love vast libraries, yet there is a doubt If one be better with them or without Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art, what and how to read. John G. Saxe.The Library.