Bible Quote by Larry Stone

“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

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not…

— Jonathan Swift

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .”

— Joseph Devlin

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him,…

— Alexander Pope

“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“When it comes to the New Testament, we can be confident we are reading from accurate sources, because we have so many ancient copies…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

“The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors…

— Thomas Paine

“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution…

— Corrie Ten Boom

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness;…

— Matthew Arnold