Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
Richard de BuryBooks alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.
Richard de BuryAll the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard de BuryYou, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
Richard de Bury