• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

    Virginia Woolf: The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions