A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!

It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers