Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.
Your library is your paradise.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
Don't join the book burners!
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Libraries are not made, they grow.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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