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Henry Spencer Ashbee
4 quotes
“My object is to collect into a common fold the stray sheep, to find a home for the pariahs of every nation. I do not then hesitate to notice the catchpennies hawked in the public streets, as well as the sumptuous volumes got up for the select few, and whose price is counted in guineas. I embrace indeed that which should be avoided as well as that which should be sought.”
Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This book for men alone is meant, Book-worms, or bibliophiles anent, Of solid mind, of serious bent, On curious, hidden books intent, On odd research and learning.”
Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No book exists, however bad, From which some good may not be had.”
Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. . . no production of the human brain should be ignored, entirely disregarded, or allowed to become utterly lost; for every writing, however trifling or insignificant it may seem, has a value to the true student, in estimating the individual who wrote it, or the period in which it was produced. . . . it is as necessary and profitable for the student to know such books, as it is for the naturalist to be acquainted with the less known and less lovely members of the animal kingdom, or for the astronomer to watch the obscurer and minor celestial bodies — the wood-louse being (in my opinion) as worthy of study as the elephant, or the transit of Venus as the daily rising and setting of the sun.”
Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source