| The enjoinment of self-criticism and self-culture seems a simpler and less circumstantial rule of life. |
| Why was this easiest, simplest work of self-culture always too much for me? |
| Conversation as a means to social, intellectual, and spiritual self-culture was advocated during the American Romantic period by members of the Transcendental movement. |
| Decision and promptitude are as requisite in self-culture as in business. |
| He did not regard his formal studies to be a happy experience, but remained a life-long disciple of self-culture. |
| It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. |
