You Can Be Slum-born And Slum-bred And

[science] Has Challenged The Super-eminence Of Religion; It Has Turned All Philosophy Out Of Doors Except That Which Clings To Its Skirts; It Has Thrown Contempt On All Learning That Does Not Depend On It; And It Has Bribed The Skeptics By Giving Us Immense Material Comforts.

It Is Not Strange That Some Of Our Revoltes Preach Trial Marriage: For The Only Safe Way To Marry Them At All Would Be On Trial. Until You Had Definitely Experienced All The Human Situations With Them, You Would Have No Means Of Knowing How, In Any Given Situation, They Would Behave. They Might Conform About Evening-dress, And Throw Plates Between Courses; They Might Be Charming To Your Friends, And Ask The Waiter To Sit Down And Finish Dinner With You. Or They Might In All Things, Little And Big, Be Irreproachable. The Point Is That You Would Never Know.

The Aristocracy Most Widely Developed In America Is That Of Wealth.

Ignorance Of What Real Learning Is, And A Consequent Suspicion Of It; Materialism, And A Consequent Intellectual Laxity, Both Of These Have Done Destructive Work In The Colleges.

I Have Always, Privately And Humbly, Thought It A Pity That So Good A Word [as Culture] Should Go Out Of The Best Vocabularies; For When You Lose An Abstract Term, You Are Apt To Lose The Thing It Stands For.