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

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.