Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

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

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

Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,
The desert read more

Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,
The desert were a paradise
If thou wert there, if thou were there.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd
The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life read more

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a read more

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them

A library implies an act of faith

A library implies an act of faith

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other read more

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.