"The use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth as but mac…"

"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

"A rational, moral being cannot, without infinite wrong, be converted into a mere instrument of others’ gratification.…"

"When I speak of the purpose of self-culture, I mean that it should be sincere. In other words, we must make self-cult…"

"Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax ef…"

"Everything excellent limits us momentarily because we feel unable to match up to it; only insofar as we subsequently …"

"We consider classical music to be the epitome and quintessence of our culture, because it is that culture’s clearest,…"

"We do not truly possess our humanity and culture as long as we live only in the present, in our own accidental enviro…"

"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled m…"

"In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things—opposition and adornment, …"