Library Building

Famous quotes containing the words library and/or building:

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

“Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)