Listen to Virginia Woolf on page 600 of a Room of One's Own where she says, top of the left-hand column: For genius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people.

Well, it's on one hand a very large idea to take in, particularly I think if one's working in a university.

On the other hand, one's success in economy may not necessarily lead to one's spiritual happiness.