The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

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.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

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

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

It is the Mass the matters.