Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

In the nuclear family the child is confronted by only two adults contrasted by sex. The tendency towards polarization is unavoidable. The duplication of effort…

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an …

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

What is more important in a library than anything else - is the fact that it exists.