“ Winter is a poor time for traveling, but the best of seasons for settling down at home and finding out what a good state we live in. Whether your taste is for romance or stern reality, adventure, poetry or fairy tales, history or politics, the literature of Oregon can please you. Having been the home of the Indian and the pioneer, Oregon is the land of romance and adventure: being the home of the mountains and the sea, it is the land of beauty; becoming the home of the thinker, it is the land of progress. ”

“ Oregon in the Library
Knowledge, like charity, should begin at home. How much do you know about Oregon? The world is talking about us—witness the current magazines—therefore it behooves us to know ourselves. ”