NORTH.
No names, Buller. Yes, Seward, the knowledge of Words is the Gate of Scholarship. Therefore I lay down upon the threshold of the Scholar's Studies this first condition of his high and worthy success, that he will not pluck the loftiest palm by means of acute, quick, clear, penetrating, sagacious, intellectual faculties alone—let him not hope it: that he requires to the highest renown also a capacious, profound, and tender soul.
SEWARD.
Ay, sir, and I say so in all humility, this at the gateway, and upon the threshold. How much more when he reads.
NORTH.
Ay, Seward, you laid the emphasis well there—reads.
SEWARD.
When the written Volumes of Mind from different and distant ages of the world, from its different and distant climates, are successively unrolled before his insatiable sight and his insatiable soul!
BULLER.
Take all things in moderation.