Note 69 — Chapter XVI · THE TRAINING OF THE CAVALRY OFFICER

We like to call to mind Ruskin’s saying in The Future of England: “Riches, so far from being necessary to noblesse, are adverse to it. So utterly that the first character of all the nobility, who have founded past dynasties in the world, is to be poor; poor often by oath, always by generosity, and of every true knight in the chivalric age the first thing that history tells you is that he never kept treasure himself.”