It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
Carolyn Wells... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.
Carolyn Wells