Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.