one who both wrote and loved books and was numbered among our finest
critics, "while I live and think, nothing can deprive me of my value
for such treasures. I can help the appreciation of them while I last
and love them till I die, and perhaps if fortune turns her face once
more in kindness upon me before I go, I may chance, some quiet day,
to lay my overbeating temples on a book, and so have the death I most
envy."