Charles Eliot Norton Quotes

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.