'All that is good and noble'
“I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble.”
― Matthew Pearl, in his novel The Technologists, set in the early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.