• Tolkien on the Stars

    He sees no stars who does not see them first of living silver made that sudden burst to flame like flowers beneath an ancient song, whose very echo after-music long has since pursued.

  • Schall on Advice for Students

    My basic advice to students is to begin building their own libraries—how the computer will affect this library building, I am not certain. Still, anyone with a taste for wonder—not all, apparently, have it—should learn to haunt used book stores, even more than stores that sell new books.

  • Lewis on “Age Specific” Books

    No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty — except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all.