You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

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

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

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

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

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.