The Library


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A library is an arsenal of liberty. - Unknown

 

"A good library is a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet." - Samuel Niger

 

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

 

"The public library is the most dangerous place in town. - John Ciardi

 

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

 

"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks. - Wendell Ford

 

"Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn." - Leo Tolstoy

 

"The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library. - Ashleigh Brilliant

 

"A circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!" - Richard Brinsley Sheridan