“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau
In this section I will link to various books; those that have most nourished me and those I’ve had a hand in bringing to life.
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
- Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
- Cicero
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing-school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
- Owen Meredith
The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.
- J. A. Langford
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
- Augustine Birrell
My library
Was dukedom large enough.
- Shakespeare, The Tempest
