Literature Quotes - Page 24

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

A loafer always has the correct time.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

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

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

The devil is compromise.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Much effort, much prosperity.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.