Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available. All you have to do is go to the library.--Jim Rohn (The Treasure of Quotes) 

A few Books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.--Thomas Fuller (Introductio ad Prudentiam)

He loved this street [42nd Street], not for the people or the shops but for the stone lions that guarded the great main building of the Public Library, a building filled with books and unimaginably vast, and which he had never yet dared to enter.--James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain)

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.--Sandra Cisneros

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.--Bernard Keble Sandwell

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.--Alexander Smith (Dreamthrop)

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.--Jorge Luis Borges

I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.--Luigi Barzine (O America)

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.--Gareth Roberts (The English Way of Death)

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.--William Makepeace Thackeray ("The Round Room Comes to an End" New York Times Book Review)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.--Samuel Johnson

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting.--Germaine Greer

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.--Carl Rowan

A library is thought in cold storage.--Herbert Samuel

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.--Richard de Bury

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.--Norman Cousins (American Library Association Bulletin 10/1954)

The library, with its tall bays and overhanging gallery, looked east and was already rather dark. Harriet found it restful.--Dorothy L. Sayers (Busman's Honeymoon)

Man, who would have thought being a librarian could be so tough?--John Whelpley ("Harper 2.0" Andromeda [television program])

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.--Malcolm X

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.--Lawrence Clark Powell (At the Heart of the Matter)

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.--Barbara W. Tuchman (The New Yorker, 1986)

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.--Mark Twain

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.--Barbara Tuchman

To make a library
It takes two volumes
And a fire.
Two volumes and a fire,
And interest.
The interest alone will do
If logs are few.--Carolyn Wells (The Rest of MY Life)

When an old man dies, a library burns down.--African Proverb

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.--Ray Bradbury (Mojave Magazine)

Your library is your portrait.--Holbrook Jackson (Maxims on Books and Reading)