| Author |
Quotes |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | The richest minds need not large libraries. |
| Barbara Tuchman | To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. |
| Bayard Taylor | Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. |
| Carl Rowan | The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. |
| J G Saxe | I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read. |
| J G Saxe | 'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! |
| Louis Macneice | Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves. |
| Ray Bradbury | Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. |
| Rev George Dawson | A great library contains the diary of the human race. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. |
| Francis Bacon | Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books, and I think no chair is so much needed. |
| Thomas Fuller | It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. |
| Unattributed Author | Food for the soul. |
| Unattributed Author | The medicine chest of the soul. |
| William Shakespeare | Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy. But thou art deeper read and better skilled, Come and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens Reveal the damned contriver of this deed. |
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