Quotes from Max Lerner, 1953

Somewhere at a summer conference, I dropped several books casually on the ground and kicked them out of the way. A German student picked up the books, dusted them off gently. He said how he had worked for years to buy a few books. A book was his blood, and he bled when he saw it mishandled.

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...