“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.''But you have just told me you were sexton here!''So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

“Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.”

“Nothing says "I love you" like a dead body”

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.”