Literature is fast becoming all in all to us—our church, our senate, our whole social constitution. Carlyle.
Literature is representative of intellect, which is progressive; government is representative of order, which is stationary. Buckle.
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. Tuckerman.
Literature is the thought of thinking souls. 50 Carlyle.
Literature, like virtue, is its own reward. Chesterfield.
Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim. Carlyle.
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. W. Godwin.
Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one;—rather a hard fight at times. Carlyle.
Litteræ non erubescunt—A letter does not blush. Cic.
Little and often fills the purse. Pr.