There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.
