A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.
The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.