It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Lena Guilbert Brown Ford, middle name sometimes listed as Gilbert, was a lyricist, best known for "Keep the Home Fires Burning" which she wrote during the First World War.
