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

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

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

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.