Augustine Birrell Quotes About Libraries

• Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Reading, Library

  Augustine Birrell (1969). “Obiter Dicta: Second Series”, p.169, Library of Alexandria

• Libraries are not made, they grow.

  Augustine Birrell

  History, Library, Librarian

  Augustine Birrell (1899). “Collected Essays”

• 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.

  Augustine Birrell

  Believe, Men, Library

  Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”

• A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

  Augustine Birrell

  Library, May, Affection

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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