"It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."

"The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of…"

"[W]e ... know very well that we never learn unless we like our lesson, and never behave ourselves unless inspired by …"

"[W]hy should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard …"

"People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything."

"Had the Pilgrim Fathers been met on Plymouth Rock by immigration officials; had their children been placed immediatel…"

"We can reckon the cost of misdirected emotions by the price which the past has paid for them. We know the full signif…"

"The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. ... [but] we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subject…"

"What the world asks now are state reforms and social reforms,—in other words, the reformation of our neighbours. What…"

"The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent…"