“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.” MayArtWholeCultureReadingResultsModernLibraryThese DaysSkipModern Culture Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.” ThinkingMenArtAgeBeautifulLiteratureSoundFriendshipIntellectualTraditionPerformancesRipeBrethren Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
