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The true university these days is a collection of books.

- Thomas Carlyle

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

- Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

- Cicero

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

- Samuel Johnson

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 of the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

- Luigi Barzini

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

- Virginia Woolf