“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
“A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to the great wonders of literature, must be intolerably stupid.”
“What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.”
“Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.”