Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.