Quotes from Isaac Disraeli
- The Bibliomania, or the collecting an enormous heap of books without intelligent curiosity, has, since libraries have existed, infected weak minds, who imagine that they themselves acquire knowledge when they keep it on their shelves.
- Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
- There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Just a few tidbits from today’s DP effort.