Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.