"A man's library is a sort of harem." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero

"The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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

"A great library contains the diary of the human race." - George Mercer Dawson

"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone." - Jo Godwin

--Kate (by the way, I've been to that library... I found it utterly wonderful!)