Application Quote by Pierre Bayle

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author…

— Pierre Bayle

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

— Anonymous

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

“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

Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus…

— Walter Savage Landor

“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

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

— John Dryden

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right…

— Eyvind Johnson

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

— Walter Savage Landor