I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

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.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

Words alone are certain good.

We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.