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: William Appleton Lawrence was the third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts. His father, William Lawrence, was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
