A Real Building Is One On Which

If A Nation's Literature Declines, The Nation Atrophies And Decays.

Literature Is News That Stays News.

Properly, We Should Read For Power. Man Reading Should Be Man Intensely Alive. The Book Should Be A Ball Of Light In One's Hand.

America, My Country, Is Almost A Continent And Hardly Yet A Nation.

In Our Time, The Curse Is Monetary Illiteracy, Just As Inability To Read Plain Print Was The Curse Of Earlier Centuries.