Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.