I wish...you could read letters you wrote 46 years ago. It is very painful reading. Said at age 68. As quoted in 'In Search of J.D. Salinger' by Ian Hamilton.
J.D. Salinger
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct.
Jane Austen