"… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, ……"

"The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains…"

"If the public gets out of the habit of reading they will not come back to it. We shall enter a new phase of our histo…"

"M. André Mayer … made an astonishing confidence not long ago. “The laboratories,” he said, “are working at this momen…"

"If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual …"

"In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescr…"

"A book exhales a subtle odor of spirituality throughout the place it adorns."

"Radio and cinema are daily playing a more and more important part, not only in the amusements of the twentieth-centur…"

"Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral …"

"I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images."