Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.