Athens Library

Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or library:

“Before the time I did Lysander see,
Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.
O then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)