"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

"What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement."

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

"To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication."