Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.”

— Herbert S. White

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

— Anonymous

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense. . . . From that great crowd you can choose what companions…

— Somerset Maughn

I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned,…

— Gillian Roberts

“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the…

— James Billington

The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever…

— Richard de Bury

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

— Henry Ward Beecher