In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

译文：有智谋的人往往能在危难的情况下实现安定，明达之人往往能纠正过失从而成就美德。赏析：我们遇到任何事都要冷静，然后想办法解决问题，有错误和过失就要勇于纠正。

要在传统和偏见的水平之上飞翔的鸟必须有强壮的翅膀。看到这些软弱的人受伤、疲惫、飘动着回到地球上，真是令人伤心。

The poet's mission is to illuminate the darkness.

The most important thing in architecture is the idea.

文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。