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..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

A library is also a place where love begins.

And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation._x000D__x000D_[Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.

The richest minds need not large libraries.