Gilbert Highet Quotes

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

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

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?