Famous quotes containing the words essential and/or classics:
“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)