“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
Source: Role Models
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“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
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“What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.”
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
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“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
No. 106 (23 March 1751)
The Rambler (1750–1752)
From Gibbs's obituary for Rudolf Clausius (1889). See The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs, vol. 2 (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), p. 267. Complete volume http://www.archive.org/details/collectedworksj00longgoog