“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!”
― Russell T. Davies

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe