Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.