P.B.M. Allan > Quotes

“Yet although we may seek solitude among our books, how far removed are we from being really alone!”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home

“Well, well, if you make up your mind to have a thing and search eagerly enough for it, you are bound to obtain it in the long run.”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home

“The greatest books of the world do not teach us; they help us to teach ourselves, a very different matter.”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home

“To the thoughtless and those of shallow intellect solitude is inseparable from loneliness.”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home

“To specialise in a particular class of books should be the object of every collector; but to adhere so rigidly to that one class of literature as to exclude from our library the great books of the world, is to deprive ourselves of all the advantages which a library can offer.”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home

“He who hesitates is lost, and this is doubly true of the book-collector.”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home

“Happy indeed are those days when the book-lover has been accorded the freedom of some ancient library. A delicious feeling of tranquillity pervades him as he selects some nook and settles himself to read.”
― P.B.M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home