Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Columbus gave the world another world.