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- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw
- The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. — George Santayana
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides
- 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
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams