Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

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.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

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

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

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