Perhaps it was never, in any period, more than a dream; but I have dreamed that dream.

And anyone who dreams that dream will have a reverence for his spoken word no matter to whom it is passed.

I may be a fool to fight this man; well then, that is the kind of fool I am! Indeed, I know I am a fool by the judgments of this age.

But I have never truly lived in this age.

I have lived in the past; I have held to the dream; I have believed in the bright adventure; I have walked with the generous, chivalric spirits of the great ages; they have come to me out of my books and dwelt with me and been my companions, and the realities of time and place have been unreal in their presence.