The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.

The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better
than ten years' study of books.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better
than ten years' study of books.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

And when you stick on conversation's burs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

And when you stick on conversation's burs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

They converse as those who know that God hears.
[Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]

They converse as those who know that God hears.
[Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of
existence.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of
existence.