I Am A Liberal, Yet

Culture Is The Passion For Sweetness And Light, And (what Is More) The Passion For Making Them Prevail.

Saw Life Steadily And Saw It Whole.

Weary Of Myself, And Sick Of Asking What I Am, And What I Ought To Be, At This Vessel's Prow I Stand, Which Bears Me Forwards, Forwards, O'er The Starlit Sea.

Culture, Then, Is A Study Of Perfection, And Perfection Which Insists On Becoming Something Rather Than In Having Something, In An Inward Condition Of The Mind And Spirit, Not In An Outward Set Of Circumstances.

Be Neither Saint Nor Sophist-led, But Be A Man.