Peter Brodie Inspirational Quotes (3)

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.