Gilbert Highet quotes
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those"
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and di
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those"