Friends of the Richmond Public Library

  • Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616), playwright

  • A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

    Henry Ward Beecher, author

  • Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

    Ray Bradbury, author

  • Libraries are the hearts of our communities.

    Jennifer R. Hubbard, author

  • Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind—humanity in print.

    Barbara Tuchman, historian & author

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