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

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.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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.

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."

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