You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.