I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
A library is a growing organism.
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Book - what they make a movie out of for television.
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Libraries are the future of reading.
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
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