To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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