Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.