Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

- Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

- Howard Mumford Jones

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

- Howard Mumford Jones

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

- Howard Mumford Jones

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial…

- Howard Mumford Jones

The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the i…

- Howard Mumford Jones

To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities …

- Howard Mumford Jones