Ohio State Library

Famous quotes containing the words ohio, state and/or library:

    “All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn’t.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)