The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.