Famous quotes containing the words royal, alexandrian and/or library:
“The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.”
—William Blackstone (17231780)
“A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“A mans library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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