Then they may drop the book, to pass at once into the region of thought without words.

We may happen to be very dull folks, you and I, and probably are, unless there is some particular reason to suppose the contrary.

But we get glimpses now and then of a sphere of spiritual possibilities, where we, dull as we are now, may sail in vast circles round the largest compass of earthly intelligences.
-- I confess there are times when I feel like the friend I mentioned to you some time ago,--I hate the very sight of a book.

Sometimes it becomes almost a physical necessity to talk out what is in the mind, before putting anything else into it.

It is very bad to have thoughts and feelings, which were meant to come out in talk, STRIKE IN, as they say of some complaints that ought to show outwardly.
I always believed in life rather than in books.