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

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

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

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.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.