Debate Is Masculine, Conversation Is Feminine.

As Education Becomes Inclusive, Introspective, Cosmic, Promoting Whole Populations To Power And Privilege, It Enthrones A Vast, Invisible, Personal Rule Over The Common Mind.

If The Ancients Left Us Ideas, To Our Credit Be It Spoken That We Moderns Are Building Houses For Them -- Structures Which Neither Plato Nor Archimedes Had Dreamed Possible.

One Must Be Rich In Thought And Character To Owe Nothing To Books, Though Preparation Is Necessary To Profitable Reading; And The Less Reading Is Better Than More;--book-struck Men Are Of All Readers Least Wise, However Knowing Or Learned.

Health, Longevity, Beauty, Are Other Names For Personal Purity; And Temperance Is The Regimen For All.

That Is A Good Book Which Is Opened With Expectation, And Closed With Delight And Profit.