Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.