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 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.

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

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.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.