Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

George Orwell

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

C.S. Lewis

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.

Ray Charles

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

Corey Hart

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that I shall never seea billboard lovely as a tree.Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash