Aristocracy’s only an admission that certain traits which we call fine – courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing – can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don’t have the warpings of ignorance and necessity

Aristocracy’s only an admission that certain traits which we call fine – courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing – can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don’t have the warpings of ignorance and necessity (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned)