Teach us to care and not to care

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.