If you read light entertainment books of no redeeming social value, you’d probably like my library. But if you read serious books, you will have read something like this from a contemporary author.

Regular people talk about other people. Smart people talk about things. But really smart people talk about ideas.

Which, “with tremulous cadence slow, brings the eternal note of self-congratulation in.”

It’s also almost exactly wrong. Principles don’t save us and concepts don’t give life. Salvation comes from a babe in a manger.