Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body. Cic.

Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades everything else, as health and bodily life, into means. Emerson.

Culture enables us to express ourselves. 10 Hamerton.

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers. Emerson.

Culture inverts the vulgar views of nature, and brings the mind to call that apparent which it uses to call real, and that real which it uses to call visionary. Emerson.

Culture is a study of perfection. Matthew Arnold.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. Matthew Arnold.

Culture (is the process by which a man) becomes 15 all that he was created capable of being, resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious, adhesions, and showing himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may. Carlyle.

Culture merely for culture's sake can never be anything but a sapless root, capable of producing at best a shrivelled branch. J. W. Cross.

Culture must not omit the arming of the man. Emerson.