Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

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.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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