Occupation: Chief Secretary To The Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland Birth: January 19, 1850 Death: November 20, 1933
That great dust-heap called 'history'..
It can never be wrong to give pleasure..
History is a pageant and not a philosophy..
Is this true or only clever?.
It is the Mass the matters..
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround….
[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.".
Libraries are not made, they grow..
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one..
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his tho….
Personally, I am dead against the burning of books..
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector.
It is the Mass that matters..
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in ….
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past..
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm..
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven.
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glo….
Few men can afford to be angry..
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence..
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to b….