Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happi… - Andrew Carnegie

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.

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