Republic Library

Famous quotes containing the words republic and/or library:

“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)