Authenticity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

— Ben Jonson

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

“Bring the words and the objects together, though, and the new story is much more convincingly human. Life no longer stops dead when Rome…

— Michael Pye

“It is as difficult to suppose a person intending to write a modern English, as to suppose him writing an ancient English, novel; that…

— Henry James

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”

— Hélène Cixous

“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a…

— Mary Ann Tolbert

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”

— B.S. Murthy