Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep…

- Richard De Bury

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitf…

- Richard De Bury

Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance …

- Richard De Bury

The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever therefore ac…

- Richard De Bury

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

- Richard De Bury

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

- Richard De Bury

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

- Richard De Bury

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

- Richard De Bury

Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

- Richard De Bury