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.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.