We Are All Citizens Of History.

By The End Of High School I Was Not Of Course An Educated Man, But I Knew How To Try To Become One

I Think We Must Quote Whenever We Feel That The Allusion Is Interesting Or Helpful Or Amusing.

When You Reread A Classic, You Do Not See More In The Book Than You Did Before; You See More In You Than There Was Before.

Name Me Any Liquid — Except Our Own Blood — That Flows More Intimately And Incessantly Through The Labyrinth Of Symbols We Have Conceived To Mark Our Status As Human Beings, From The Rudest Peasant Festival To The Mystery Of The Eucharist.

There Is No Reader So Parochial As The One Who Reads None But This Morning's Books. Books Are Not Rolls, To Be Devoured Only When They Are Hot And Fresh. A Good Book Retains Its Interior Heat And Will Warm A Generation Yet Unborn.