There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

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

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.

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

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.