There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.