Adopt a Friend

‘A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people — people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.’

E. B. White

‘If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.’

Benjamin Franklin

‘Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.’

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf