Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

The acquiring of culture is the developing of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

The acquiring of culture is the developing of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Folklore makes one aware of the brotherhood of man.