After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.