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

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

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

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

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.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.