A private intellectual operating system.
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Cicero
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Thomas Carlyle
"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
Walter Savage Landor
"We read to know we are not alone."
C. S. Lewis
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
Italo Calvino