Quotes by : Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place....

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified....

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.