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. Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself.
Libraries are our base camp.
Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds. Libraries, which 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. The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. The library is a temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars of history. A library is books and somewhere to put them and some people who want them there.