A thousand years hence these books would be as priceless as the manuscripts from the Tun-huang caves.Now they were ancient without being rare.Shortsighted, shallow-minded book collectors still did not have sense enough to buy them up.

• 一千年后，这些书准像敦煌石室的卷子那样名贵，现在呢，它们古而不稀，短见浅识的藏书家还不知道收买。