It is not in the polish that the real difference lies; it is in the substance polished.

In politeness, in delicacy, they have as a people no peers.

Art has been their mistress, though science has never been their master.

Perhaps for this very reason that art, not science, has been the Muse they courted, the result has been all the more widespread.

For culture there is not the attainment of the few, but the common property of the people.