Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all
the souls of all read more

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all
the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours
to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or
middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves,
their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem
to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of
their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom
of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library implies an act of faith

A library implies an act of faith

It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.

It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by
getting a great library.

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.