""Neither be idle in the means, nor make an idol of the means."--William Secker

"Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god."--M. Denis de Rougemont (Qtd. by C. S. Lewis)

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading."--Charles Lamb

"Seeing firsthand the power of books in my own life encourages me to read even more."--Tony Reinke

"But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter...."--G. K. Chesterton


"O senseless man who cannot make a worm, and yet makes gods by dozens."--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (Qtd. by Monergism Books)

"Oh teach the mind t' aetherial heights to rise,
And view familiar, in its native skies,
Thy source of good; thy splendor to descry,
And on thy self, undazled, fix her eye.
Oh quicken this dull mass of mortal clay;
Shine through the soul, and drive its clouds away!
For thou art Light. In thee the righteous find
Calm rest, and soft serenity of mind;
Thee they regard alone; to thee they tend;
At once our great original and end,
At once our means, our end, our guide, our way,
Our utmost bound, and our eternal stay!"
--Anicius Boethius, "O Qui Perpetua Mundum Ratione Gubernas""
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