You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings