I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.