«We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books. (…) [Keep] the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds (…). Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction (…). [The] books of the future would be just as good a corrective as the books of the past, but unfortunately we cannot get at them.»
