It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. My library was dukedom large enough.
Some books are lies frae end to end.
Books which are no books. A blessed companion is a book, a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend. The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery.