More from Erasmus
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523), § 176, As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377A speech comes alive only if it rises from the heart, not if it floats on the lips.
in The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 130.- Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
