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

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

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.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so read more

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

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

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

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

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

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.