The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

- John Cotton Dana

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use t…

- John Cotton Dana

Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along in…

- John Cotton Dana