It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

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.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

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

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.