Connor McKenna

“It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Excellence does not require perfection.”
― Henry James

“Culture . . . seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light...”
― Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy & Other Writings