» Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
» The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
» Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
» Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
» Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
» The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
» Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
» There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
» Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
» Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.