Quotations dealing with books

Monboddo wrote:
Has anyone got a favorite quotation that deals with book collecting?

Francis Bacon: " Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and
some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only
in parts; others to be read but not seriously; and some few to be read
wholly and with diligence and attention.

Ed Schaeffer


Not on collecting per se, but a couple of my favorites on reading books:

1. "One could make a great book of what has not been said."
(Rivarol)

2. "To enjoy reading is to transform wearisome hours into delightful ones."
(Montesquieu)

3. “The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine,
forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and
libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den."
(Adams)