No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
Great books conserve time.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
I am proud of what I am. I am a librarian.
