You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing. – Anonymous 

 Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated, and reimagined if it is to survive. - Zadie Smith 

 Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.' ― Carol Emshwiller 

 Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert 

 Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? - Annie Dillard