Our Bravest And Best Lessons Are Not

Experience Converts Us To Ourselves When Books Fail Us.

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.

A Friendship Formed In Childhood, In Youth,--by Happy Accident At Any Stage Of Rising Manhood,--becomes The Genius That Rules The Rest Of Life.

Yet The Deepest Truths Are Best Read Between The Lines, And, For The Most Part, Refuse To Be Written.

One Must Be A Wise Reader To Quote Wisely And Well.