“The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.”

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

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.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don’t understand it can enjoy.

One thing I’m big on is believing in giving an album time. I’ll say you’ll have to give an album three years before you can call it a classic. If you can’t listen to it three years later then it’s not really a classic.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.