To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

A classic is a book that remains in print

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.