Louis Sullivan: What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy , and what is art but a curse when they touch

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy , and — Louis Sullivan

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy , and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action ?

Louis Sullivan

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