The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity, and this passion is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.
~ A. Edward Newton
A man’s library is a sort of harem, and tender readers have a great prudency in showing their books to a stranger.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the poet that reads their own poetry in public for they may have other bad habits … LL