A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness: So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist, Jack.