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

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

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

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

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.

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

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

I knew such a woman once, She gave me everything.Her love like a soft riot singing, She knew how to shine.

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

To practice Extreme Self-Care, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally, accept your imperfections, and embrace your vulnerabilities.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.