“Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.”

“No construct on earth will stand, that does not stand for the least among them, as their advocate and humble servant.”

“who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?”

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

“This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.”