[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.""

"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.