Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. Votes: 1
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. Votes: 0
The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. Votes: 5 T. S. Eliot
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. Votes: 4 Germaine Greer