A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument
for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only,
is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
- Letter to the Millicent [Rogers] Library, 2/22/1894
Illustration of
Twain and his characters by F. Luis Mora from Sunday newspaper supplements of
Mark Twain's Autobiography on Oct. 17, 1907.
From the Dave Thomson collection.
But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated
Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep
unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
- Letter to Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, 2/7/1907
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