Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

All time is unreedemable.

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

April is the cruellest month.