#maturation

"She was too well-trained to panic."

"The Mother Thing makes our world."

"She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude."

"The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate"of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back."

"A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian."

"Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue."

"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."

"More depended on the student than on the school."

"One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed."

"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."

"Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment."

"It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist."