Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

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.

Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Is this true or only clever?

It is the Mass the matters.

Libraries are not made, they grow.