Someone once asked Ben jamin Franklin what sort of person he most pitied. Franklin replied, "A lonesome man on a rainy d…

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Joseph Brodsky

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

— Mark Twain

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

— Jorge Luis Borges

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of pa…

— Dr. Channing

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled…

— Dr. Johnson