Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.