“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection for it, and it only is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”

“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection for it, and it only is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”