WRITTEN ON THE WALLS
WASHINGTON STREET ENTRANCE
HOMER
PLATO
CICERO
LIVY
HORACE
VIRGIL
LONGFELLOW
EMERSON
BRYANT
WHITTIER
HAWTHORNE
IRVING
THE THOMAS HUGHES READING ROOM
OUTER HALL, THIRD FLOOR
LITERIS
BORN MDCCVI BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIED MDCCXC
FOUNDER OF THE CIRCULATING LIBRARY
The real use of all knowledge is this,
that we should dedicate that reason which was given us by God for the use and advantage of man.
BACON
COLERIDGE
HOOD
MOORE
DE QUINCEY
WORDSWORTH
POPE
BYRON
SHELLEY
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
ISAAC BARROW
MACAVLAY
GIBBON
CARLYLE
HUME
POE
LOWELL
STOWE
HOLMES
A library implies an act of faith which generations still in darkness hid sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
HUGO
BANCROFT
MOTLEY
PRESCOTT
PARKMAN
SCOTT
BURNS
TENNYSON
GRAY
A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
MILTON
THACKERAY
ELIOT
BULWER
DICKENS
SWIFT
JOHNSON
SHERIDAN
LAMB
PRESTON BRADLEY HALL DOME
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to
mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
ADDISON
EAST WING
Egyptian:
I will make thee to love literature thy mother;
I will make its beauties pass before thee.
PROVERBS OF TUAUU-SE-KHARTHAI
Hebrew:
And the book is delivered unto him that is not learned,
saying, read this, I pray thee.
ISAIAH XXIX: 12
Persian:
They who by genius and by power of brain
The rank of man’s enlighteners attain,
Not even they emerge from this dark night
But tell their dreams and fall asleep again.
OMAR KHAYYAM
Chinese:
He who from day to day recognizes what he has not yet, and from month to month does not forget what he has attained to, may be said indeed to love to learn.
CONFUCIUS
Greek:
The advice which their friends have not the courage to give to kings is found written in books.
PLUTARCH
DANTE
TASSO
GALILEO
CERVANTES
MOLIERE
SHILLER
GOETHE
VOLTAIRE
CORNEILLE
DEFOE
NEWTON
DRYDEN
BUNYAN
CHAUCER
SPENSER
SHAKSPERE
BACON
MILTON
WEST WING
French:
Men are equal; it is not birth but worth
that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRE
Italian:
Open thy mind to what I unfold
And give it inward keeping, Knowledge comes
Of learning well retain’d unfruitful else.
DANTE
Latin:
Whatever things were written aforetime were written
for our learning. Rom. XV: 4
VULGATE
German:
Oh, sweet voice! Much welcome sound
Of mother tongue in foreign land.
GOETHE
Spanish:
Does the scholar cease his learning?
The more he knows, the more his yearning.
YIARTE
SIDNEY R. YATES GALLERY
The world is founded on thoughts and ideas. Not on cotton or iron.
EMERSON
We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions.
FIELDING
LUX ET VERITAS (light and truth)
EXHIBITION HALL
Books are the best things well used. Abused, among the worst.
EMERSON
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He reads much. He is a great observer and he looks quite through the deeds of men.
SHAKESPEARE
NORTH STAIRCASE, THIRD FLOOR
WAR MEMORIAL (2014)
GRAND ARMY OF REPUBLIC MEMORIAL
DONT TREAD ON ME
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March to the Sea
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Gettysburg
Stone River
Chickamauga
Siege of Vicksburg
Lookout Mountain
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