A library is not a luxury
but one of the necessities of life.
-Henry Ward Beecher
In a library we are surrounded
by many hundreds of dear friends.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What harbor can receive you more securely
than a great library?
-Italo Calvino
Is there anything so delicious
as the first exploration of a great library -
alone - unwatched?
-Richard Jefferies
A library doesn't need windows.
A library is a window.
-Stewart Brand
Your library is your portrait.
-Holbrook Jackson
Your library is your paradise.
-Desiderius Erasmus
I have always thought of Paradise
In form and image as a Library.
-Jorge Luis Borges
A great library
contains the diary of the human race.
-Thomas Carlyle
A Library goes on
as far as thought can reach.
-Robertson Davies
The richest minds need not large libraries.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries.
They ought to be warned.
-Saul Bellow
We each contribute our own book
to the great library of humanity.
-Steve Maraboli
