To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

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.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

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