Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.