Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. [ Carlyle ]

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. [ Johnson ]

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. [ Charles Dudley Warner ]

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. [ Horace ]

In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but our architecture is poor. [ Joubert ]

Satire lies respecting literary men during their life, and eulogy does so after their death. [ Voltaire ]

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word: Wait! [ Longfellow ]

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. [ Macaulay ]

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, and to whom they are related. [ Heine ]

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. [ Johnson ]

A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. [ Robert Hall ]

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. [ Macaulay ]

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them; almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. [ Thackeray ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]