“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
“One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god’s existence.”
“We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.”
“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”