Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. Germaine Greer
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
A man’s library is a sort of harem. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters. Mason Cooley
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. John Braine
What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. Ashleigh Brilliant
The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. Lesley Conger
Librarians…possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God’s green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is. Garrison Keillor
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Barbara Tuchman
To an historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman