You Can Bear Anything If It Is

... 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.

Most Men Have Always Wanted As Much As They Could Get; And Possession Has Always Blunted The Fine Edge Of Their Altruism.

... There Are Some Who, Believing That All Is For The Best In The Best Of Possible Worlds, And That To-morrow Is Necessarily Better Than To-day, May Think That If Culture Is A Good Thing We Shall Infallibly Be Found To Have More Of It That We Had A Generation Since; And That If We Can Be Shown Not To Have More Of It, It Can Be Shown Not To Be Worth Seeking.

Culture' Means A Long Receptivity To Things Of The Mind And The Spirit.

Every One Knows About The Young Man Who Falls In Love With The Chorus-girl Because She Can Kick His Hat Off, And His Sister's Friends Can't Or Won't. But The Youth Who Marries Her, Expecting That All Her Departures From Convention Will Be As Agile Or As Delightful To Him As That, Is Still The Classic Example Of Folly.