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

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

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. One read more

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.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a read more

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient
saints, full of true virtue, and that read more

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.

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

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