Who said “No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public…”?

“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.”

“The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”

“Your library is your paradise.”

“A library implies an act of faith.”

“A man's library is a sort of harem.”

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“The future is purchased by the present.”

“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”

“I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.”

“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”