The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for arti… - Logan Pearsall Smith

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

If we find, when we read again one of our classics—say Virgil for instance—that we like it better than ever, the experience may suggest an even more pleasing conjecture. Psychologists tell us that fullness of life is the goal of everything that lives, that the impulse towards completeness, towards ripeness and self-realization, is the most compelling of all motives. These discoveries in old books of new beauties and aspects of interest may persuade us, therefore, that we are not only still ourselves, but more ourselves than ever: that our spirit has not only persisted in its being, but has become more lucid in the process.