Quotes about Library

In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed of works written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000 volumes.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

My first inclination is to gush about the book hoard. The library is an amalgamation of the generations of residents in this house. The dust of their reading lives has been left behind like sedimentary layers of sandstone, year upon year, decade upon decade. New books and old ones that probably haven't been touched in a century.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Here he employed himself in reading St. Augustine and the school men; but, in turning over the leaves of the library, he accidentally found a copy of the Latin Bible, which he had never seen before. This raised his curiosity to a high degree: he read it over very greedily, and was amazed to find what a small portion of the scriptures was rehearsed to the people.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.