As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.