While there's life, there's hope. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."