Tennyson rules, folks

One of the very best things about digging through old books is digging through old books. It's like meeting old friends and picking things up right where you left off. No grudges or "catching up" or accusations for letting so much time pass. The old familiarity, the camraderie, is still there.

"...[A]nd though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

- Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson