The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

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

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

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