Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher

Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840