Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
A library is infinity under a roof.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
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