Who said “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine…”?

“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”

“Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.”

“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.”

“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”

“Culture is one thing and varnish is another.”

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”

“Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

“No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.”

“More light!”

“Only law can give us freedom.”