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

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.