“ What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? Gilbert Highet
“ A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. Gilbert Highet
“ 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 Lat… Gilbert Highet
“ 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… Gilbert Highet
