“As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.John Milton
“Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. William Shakespeare
“For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. Christopher Smart
“Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Hilaire Belloc