The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. 642
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. 724
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. 406
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. 329
