Clearly, I have something to aspire to

A Victorian visitor to the home of John Murphy, the Bishop of Cork:

The Roman Catholic bishop of Cork has one of the most interesting collections I have anywhere seen.  This learned and industrious man has turned his whole house into a library.  Not only his sitting rooms and dining rooms, but even in his bedroom every spare place is filled with books.  His attendants and even his menial servants sleep in little libraries.  The walls of his staircases and the corridors of his rooms are filled with books, up to the very garrets....

--qtd. in Nigel Yates, The Religious Condition of Ireland 1770-1850 (OUP, 2006), 106.