Augustine Birrell

“Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.”

“An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.”

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

“Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own langu...”

“An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.”