A Great Library Easily Begets

It Is The Mass That Matters.

Any 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.

A Great Library Easily Begets Affection, Which May Deepen Into Love.

Is This True Or Only Clever?

I Am Far Too Much In Doubt About The Present, Far Too Perturbed .about The Future, To Be Otherwise Than Profoundly Reverential About The Past.