A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.

Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.

The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the read more

The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are open paradise.

Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers

Paradise is our native country, and we in this world be as exiles and strangers

Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.

Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.

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.

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.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it read more

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose