THE QUOTE MEME. I did promise to respond to a request from Voluntary Xchange.

You know you've got them somewhere. Wonderful quotes that you kept for posterity and which have yet to see the light of day. Set them free and let the rest of us read them!

Yes, I do that. Here's a short one from C.S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man."

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

The essay predates the therapeutic infection of our education enterprise. Read the rest of it.

I have others. Maybe on slow days ...