What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. - Walter Pater

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.