The owner of a large library solemnly warned a friend against the practice of lending books. To punctuate his advice he showed his friend the well-stocked shelves. "There!" said he. "Every one of those books was lent me."
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.—Bulwer-Lytton.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the Printers have lost.—Fuller.
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
—Sir John Denham.