文化是活着的歷史。當時間流逝，一切堅固的東西都將煙消雲散，惟獨文化和精神將長存。馬修·阿諾德在19世紀60年代說，文化這個概念很微妙地包含了一種使人美好、高尚的東西，每個社會中被認爲是最優秀的因素。文化的鏈條就是在傳承中延續，在古香古色中沉澱，而我們嗅着文化的氣息成長，你感覺到了嗎?
1. A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight .(P. B. Shelley , British poet )
偉大的詩篇即是永遠噴出智慧和歡欣之水的噴泉。(英國詩人 雪萊. P. B)
2. A novel is a mirror walking along a main road .( Stendhcl , French writer )
一部小說猶如一面在大街上走的鏡子。 (法國作家 司湯達)
3. Art is a lie that tells the truth .( Picasso , Spanish painter )
美術是揭示真理的謊言。 (西班牙畫家 畢加索)
4. A good essay must have this permanent quality about it: it must drawits curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, notout. (Virginia Woolf)
一篇好文章必須永遠具有以下特徵：它必須有一層幕布圍繞着我們，但那層幕布必須把我們包圍進文章而不是把我們阻擋在外面。（弗吉尼亞.沃爾夫）
5. A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledgeslowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult attimes to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when theylead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. (Antoniode Saint Exupery, French author)
一種文明是歷經數百年慢慢地沉澱繼承下來的信念、習俗、知識，有時難以用邏輯來解釋，但因爲它們深入人們內心，便可當之無愧地爲人們指明方向。（安東尼.德.聖.埃克於貝里，法國作家)
