Books are absent teachers.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.