English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society-that is what interests me.

Eutrapelia. 'A happy and gracious flexibility,' Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedo…

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The stro…

Political nationalism has become for our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity; more i…

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are pre…

We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by…