Who said “Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were…”?

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”

“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.”

“When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.”

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”