The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well. - Mortimer J. Adler
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. - Mortimer J. Adler
Books are absent teachers. - Mortimer J. Adler
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer J. Adler