"Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”

“O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!”

“And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.”

“Writing a book is an adventure.”

“Books cannot be killed by fire.”

“How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.”

“It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.”

“A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.”

“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”