No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Living in an area that catches every storm that boils out of the Gulf will breed a certain toughness in a people. That may be the parish's best hope for rebuilding.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.