Youth 1
University Days 3
How Should One Read a Book 8
Outside Literature 12
LateSummer 17
A Word for Autumn 20
The Windmill 23
Niagara Falls 26
Advice to Writers 32
Why a Classic is a Classic 36
On Laziness 41
Going Out for a Walk 45
Free! 49
What I Think and Feel at 25 53
On the Difference between Wit and Humor 64
What is Wrong with Our System of Education? 70
The Libido for the Ugly 75
The Crooked Streets 81
The Pleasures of Ignorance 86
What Life Means to Me 92
Supplementary Reading 101
Peace in the Atomic Age 101
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 102
The Great Arsenal of Democracy 103
Appendix:Rhetorical Terms 113
References 116