It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them. Frederick Locker-Lampson quote
Vanitas vanitatum' has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair Frederick Locker-Lampson quote