New arts destroy the old.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?