The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
