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.

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 mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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