"The more refined one is, the more unhappy." - Anton Chekhov

"Culture has one great passion - the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them prevail." - MATTHEW ARNOLD, Culture and Anarchy

"Culture is one thing, and varnish another." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals

"One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"When I hear the word 'culture' . . . I release the safety-catch of my Browning." - HANNS JOHST, Schlageter

"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Life of Reason

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors." - SIMONE WEIL, The Need for Roots

"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone." - EDITH WHARTON, Xingu