Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.