Books are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

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.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past ordinary people respected learning. They respected books and they don't now or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.