funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p8
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.
What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.
