To read without joy is stupid. Author: John Williams Copy Quote More from John Williams “He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished …” “To the followers of the murdered Caesar:Do you march against Decimus Brutus Alb…” “In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being t…” “In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands o…”