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

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.

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

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

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.