American scholar Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful…

— 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

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized…

— 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

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries…

— Paula Poundstone

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

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

— Patrick Ness

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

— Diane Ackerman

The Duffers are very smart young men.

— Caleb McLaughlin

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

— Somerset Maughn

“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always…

— Barack Obama

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy