Quotes on Literature

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

To create something you must be something.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The world remains ever the same.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.