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

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.