The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.