John Cotton Dana Quotes & Sayings

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana

To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation. — 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 continuous joy, comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes, not because it is ridden as a hobby, but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side! — John Cotton Dana

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. — John Cotton Dana