LITERATURE

文學

The printed page is a visitor who gets inside the home and stays there; it always catches a man in the right mood, for it speaks to him only when he is reading it.

Gilbert Highet

印刷的書頁是位進入家庭就駐足不走的訪客;它總在適當的時機吸引人,因為它只在人們閱讀時才對人說話。

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of the church and state.

Francis Bacon

如果我能掌控家庭閱讀的書籍,我保證教會與國家必定欣欣向榮。

Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yea, and which is more, when the author is not.

Thomas Brooks

當一位作家不能說,不想說、不敢說,大多時候甚至作者沒說的時候,他寫的書籍都能幫他說出來。

The devil hates goose quills.

Martin Luther

魔鬼討厭鵝毛筆。

We must throw the printer's inkpot at the devil.

Martin Luther

我們必須拿墨水瓶扔魔鬼。

The smallest tract may be the stone in David's sling.  In the hands of Christ it may bring down a giant soul.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

最小的冊子都能成為大衛甩機弦的石頭。放在基督的手中能夠擊垮巨大的心靈。

We become what we read.

Matilda Nordtvedt

我們會變成我們所閱讀的。

Literature is the immortality of speech.

August Schlegel

文學是不朽的言語。

Be careful what books you read; for as water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul of the authors that a man reads.

John Trapp

要留心你讀的是甚麼樣的書;水流過土壤時,會帶著那塊土壤的味道,作者的心靈同樣的會如此影響我們。

No other agency can penetrate so deeply, witness so daringly, abide so persistently and influence so irresistible as the printed page.

Samuel Zwemmer

沒有任何東西能像書籍一樣深入人心、勇敢的見證、堅定不移以及生發令人無法抗拒的影響。