The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.