A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

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

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

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

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.