William Butler Yeats Quote

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.


The king's threshold. On Baile's strand. Deirdre. The shadowy waters (ed. 1908)


I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his...

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his...

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his...

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his...