If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

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