Who said “Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the…”?

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”

“Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!”

“This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.”

“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.”

“But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.”