"And not our Houses alone, when (as SOPHOCLES has it) they stand long untenanted, run the faster to ruine, but Mens natural parts lying unemployed for lack of Acquaintance with the World, contract a kind of filth or rust and craziness thereby."
Whether 'Twere Rightly Said, Live Conceal'd [from Plutarch's Morals]
Text from "Whether 'Twere Rightly Said, Live Conceal'd," trans. Charles Whitaker in <u>Plutarch's Morals: Translated from the Greek by Several Hands</u>, 5th ed., vol. 3 of 5 (London: Printed for William Taylor, 1718), 35-42. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=U0RWAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>

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See also Liberty Fund edition, digitized from <u>Plutarchâ€™s Morals. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands</u>. Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878). This 1878 American edition is based on the 5th edition of 1718. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1753">Link to OLL</a>&gt;