About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.