The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.