"Euclid charted hard, clear lines and curves visible to the eye. Plato stepped softly towards the rare, shy, quick-fleeing idea; then impaled it wriggling upon a point of logic, netted, tamed, and trained it to answer questions, and exhibited it for all the world to see." - Willison Whitman

"A young man who escaped scholarly boredom with the masterpieces of literature by going to sea is now reading them as they should be rea, for fun. He discovered Plato with delight, and writes of that discovery: 'My best time for reading is to get up at sunrise, when I can be alone. Then I can read on the deck ...'

Plato at sunrise, at sea - that surely is the way he should be read. Light in the east, cool morning air with a tang of Attic salt in it, and no distractions to mar the miracle of the world's waking - there are the ideal conditions." - Willison Whitman