Reading Is A Basic Tool In The

Imaginative Literature Primarily Pleases Rather Than Teaches. It Is Much Easier To Be Pleased Than Taught, But Much Harder To Know Why One Is Pleased. Beauty Is Harder To Analyze Than Truth.

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.

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.

If You Are Reading In Order To Become A Better Reader, You Cannot Read Just Any Book Or Article. You Will Not Improve As A Reader If All You Read Are Books That Are Well Within Your Capacity. You Must Tackle Books That Are Beyond You, Or, As We Have Said, Books That Are Over Your Head. Only Books Of That Sort Will Make You Stretch Your Mind. And Unless You Stretch, You Will Not Learn.

We Love Even When Our Love Is Not Requited.