Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by 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.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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 the trolley when one needs transportation.

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

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!