Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.