In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.