Newburgh Enlarged City School District
"Critical Lens Quotations"

Mini-Lesson

1. "Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body." Addison
2. "Reading makes a full man." Bacon
3. "Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose." Wilde
4. "The pen is mightier than the sword." Bulwer-Lytton
5. "The pen is the tongue of the mind." Cervantes
6. "You must look into people as well as at them." Chesterfield
7. "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." T.Paine
8. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested." Bacon
9. "The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander." Landors
10. "A book is the only immortality." R. Choate
11. "Truth exists for the wise and beauty for the feeling heart." Schiller
12. "Men in general judge more from appearance than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration." Machiavelli
13. "Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die." Alfrieri