"Every library should try to be complete..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”

“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”

“Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.”

“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.”

“I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.”

“Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.”

“Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.”

“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”