Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Woo the muse of the odd.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.