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.

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.

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

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

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

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.