The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

The hero can never be a relativist.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.