“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”
“Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
“Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.”
“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
“The student is to read history actively not passively.”
“Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.”