But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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

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

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

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."