Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

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

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

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

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know