4 Quotes by Charles Eliot Norton

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.

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.

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.