A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. – Jeremy Collier
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. – Jeremy Collier
Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014