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

- Melvil Dewey

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

- Melvil Dewey

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

- Melvil Dewey

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

- Melvil Dewey

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 incline…

- Melvil Dewey

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 lib…

- Melvil Dewey

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 rec…

- Melvil Dewey