English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

To have a second language at your disposal, even if you only know it enough to read it with pleasure, is a sensible advantage....to secure the enormous boon of access to a second literature. Choose well, choose wisely, and choose one.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.