if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.