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.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.