The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.