A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

America why are your libraries full of tears?

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

People make their way through the library like a dense forest, not knowing where it begins or where it will end. ("Two Libraries")

Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

Un hogar sin libros es como un cuerpo sin alma.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry