the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine. - Andrew Carnegie

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.