The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age; since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information, by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.
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Originally published in a review of "Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland", where the next sentence was "In no department have the complaints of this evil been louder or more just, than in the law." and the first sentence was "We cannot perceive any sufficient reason for the publication of this book."