Literature is the fruit of thinking souls.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it ...

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities of one.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.

Literature does not please by moralizing us; it moralizes us because it pleases.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.