Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.