Respect it. "My latest passion will be for books," said Frederick the
Great, in his old age. He had hardly looked down into the waters until
he got nearly to the other shore. Gibbon declared that a taste for books
was the pleasure and glory of his life; and Carlyle, who, it is
supposed, was better acquainted with books than any man who has yet
lived, declared that of all man could do or make here below, by far the
most momentous, wonderful, and worthy were the things we call books.