Quotes About Literature

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

Keine zauberwirkende Rune ist wunderbarer als ein Buch. Bücher sind das auserlesene Besitztum der Menschen.

The greatest university is a collection of books.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

Dante Alighieri] is world-great not because he is world-wide but because he is world-deep.

In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

A Good Book is the purest essence of a Human Soul ''.

Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books! –

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.