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.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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."

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

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.

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),