Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

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.

First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.