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

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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.

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

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?