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.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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.