These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

~ Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Books Literature Reading Words

Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

~ Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Literature

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

~ Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Children Parents Between

A good teacher is a determined person.

~ Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Good Good Teacher Person

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

~ Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet Health Value Believe

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

~ Gilbert Highet

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