Literature

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."

"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."

"Literature is indispensable to the world."

"Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned."

"Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."

"It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature."

"For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."

"Literature is my Utopia"