America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an รฉlite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
W. H. AudenI think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
W. H. AudenBeauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.
W. H. Auden