The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

My books are friends that never fail me."

(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.