Religion is civilization, the highest. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Civilization has its cup of bitterness. [ F. de Conches ]

A revolution is the lava of a civilization. [ Victor Hugo ]

The farmers are the founders of civilization. [ Daniel Webster ]

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. [ George W. Curtis ]

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. [ Lamartine ]

Liberty is worth whatever the best civilization is worth. [ Henry Giles ]

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. [ Emerson ]

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

The imagination is the secret and harrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit, and the results of its civilization. [ J. G. Holland ]

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilization goes they are in their second. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]