“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.”
“But it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in.”
“The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.”
“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”
“Did you just say ‘frolic’?”“Is it not a word?”“Who the hell says ‘frolic’?”“I say frolic. And more people should.”“They should say frolic or actually frolic.”“Both.”
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”