Affection is a coal that must be cooled.

Affection is like having a heartboner

Affection blinds reason.

Affection is antithetical to imagination — When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination.

Attention is everything -- If you never noticed, it never happened.

Attention is decisive. What holds attention determines action.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is vitality — It connects one with others and makes one eager.

Culture is that which, for the average person, appears to be remote, hovers over, and humiliates him.

Culture is that upon whose reflection we obtain a larger reservoir of ways of knowing.

Culture is tasked, as its primary function, to harness and control energy.

A Culture is not a scientific object. It is produced historically and is actively contested.

Influence is inherent in everything — Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Influence is important to character — Amongst the honorable a man becomes honorable ; amongst the base, base.

Influence is most successful when grounded in kindness — you cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Influence is a kind of immortality — a man lives as long as there are those who bear the stamp of his influence.