We love even when our love is not requited.

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.

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Books are absent teachers.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.