Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.