[Dale] Carnegie commanded anyone wishing to acquire truly extensive and precise diction to give over his days and nights to the Bible and Shakespeare. So I began to read these two sacred texts at bedtime.
–Michael Dirda, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
… it used to be said of the Americans on the frontier that they only had two books that they could carry along with them. These were the Bible and Shakespeare. The fact is that at some fundamental level most of the important things about human life were contained in these two books. No library on this new frontier that we are on in modern academia should lack either of these books.
–James V. Schall, A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning
