Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

He that cannot reason is a fool.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

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.