Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,--
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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.

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.