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- A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. — Aldous Huxley
- Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt
- Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle
- When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M. H. Abrams
- John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. — M. H. Abrams
- It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. — M. H. Abrams