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.

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

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

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

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 not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

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

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

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

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

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

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient
saints, full of true virtue, and that read more

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient
saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or
imposture, are preserved and reposed.